| arya | Date: Tuesday, 20-September-2011, 3:49 PM | Message # 1 |
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
A Saturn-sized planet located about 200 light years from Earth takes 221 days to fly around the binary stars.
Both stars are smaller than the sun, putting their planet, which orbits about as far away as Venus is to the sun, outside the habitable zone.
If you could stand on the surface of Kepler-16b, you'd have two shadows. At sunset, you would see an orange star about the size of the sun and next to it a much fainter red star. As the stars slipped toward the horizon, they would change places in the sky, like partners in a square dance.
Full article/source - http://news.discovery.com/space....15.html
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