Astronomers Find New Circumbinary "Tatooine-like" Planet Candidates

Astronomers Find New Circumbinary "Tatooine-like" Planet Candidates
By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/IxY2m10)

There's a distinct category of exoworlds out there that orbit two stars. They're called "circumbinary" planets and up until recently, astronomers had only found about 18 of them among the 6000+ other known exoplanets and candidates. Now, a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have found 27 more potential circumbinary worlds. They credit a new method, called apsidal precession, for their finding.

May 19, 2026 at 06:15AM
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