NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting Twin Suns

August 27, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
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NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first transiting circumbinary system -- multiple planets orbiting two suns -- 4,900 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus, proving that more than one planets can form and survive in orbit around a binary star.