Kepler-35
May 10, 2012
An artist's rendition of the Kepler-35 planetary system, in which a Saturn-size planet orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-35b orbits its smaller and cooler host stars than our sun every 131 days, and the stellar pair orbits each other every 21 days.
Image credit: Lynette Cook / extrasolar.spaceart.org
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