04-16-2019, 07:32 PM
Three planets orbiting two stars
Cheating a bit here, but the research does involve the Hawaii-based astronomer Nader Haghighipour. This has to be a system that even the Star Trek producers never thought about (Trekies, feel free to prove me wrong!). OK, the Star Wars people thought about it...
This is a star with another star orbiting it, and also has at least three planets orbiting it, or both of the stars, as well.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-rel...Kepler47d/
"This discovery cements the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds, and marks the first complete and dynamically full planetary system around a binary star. A complete and dynamically full planetary system is one that cannot have any more planets — like our solar system. Circumbinary planets are those that orbit both stars of a binary star system, like Tatooine in the Star Wars films.
With its three planets orbiting two stars, Kepler-47 is the only known multi-planet circumbinary system. The orbit of the outer planet of this system falls well within the binary's habitable zone, the region where an Earth-like planet could maintain liquid water on its surface."
Cheating a bit here, but the research does involve the Hawaii-based astronomer Nader Haghighipour. This has to be a system that even the Star Trek producers never thought about (Trekies, feel free to prove me wrong!). OK, the Star Wars people thought about it...
This is a star with another star orbiting it, and also has at least three planets orbiting it, or both of the stars, as well.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-rel...Kepler47d/
"This discovery cements the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds, and marks the first complete and dynamically full planetary system around a binary star. A complete and dynamically full planetary system is one that cannot have any more planets — like our solar system. Circumbinary planets are those that orbit both stars of a binary star system, like Tatooine in the Star Wars films.
With its three planets orbiting two stars, Kepler-47 is the only known multi-planet circumbinary system. The orbit of the outer planet of this system falls well within the binary's habitable zone, the region where an Earth-like planet could maintain liquid water on its surface."