Circumbinary Planet Found

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has detected a planet orbiting two stars, the first such discovery by the orbiting planet-finder or any other observatory. The Saturn-sized gas and rock giant in the binary Kepler-16 system, about 200 light years from Earth, is too cold to support life like the imaginary...

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