My 2 Suns: Bounty of New Exoplanet Discoveries Includes a World Orbiting a Binary Star
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 15:00
in Astronomy & Space
The hundreds of distant worlds, some large and some small, that are known to dot the galaxy provide plenty of intrigue for the scientists who hunt them. But the catalogued planetary population has just gotten a lot larger and more diverse, thanks to word this week of a newly identified planet orbiting two suns, more than a dozen newfound "super-Earths," and strong indications that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to an almost unfathomable number of planets awaiting discovery. [More]