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June 20, 2016

San Francisco State University astronomer helps discover giant planet orbiting 2 suns
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San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane is among a team of researchers who have discovered a new planet that orbits two suns simultaneously. The discovery was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego. With a mass and radius nearly identical to that of Jupiter, the planet, Kepler-1647b, is the largest circumbinary planet - a planet that orbits two stars - ever discovered. Located in the direction of the constellation Cygnus, Kepler-1647b is 3,700 light ... read more

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