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Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, San Diego State University astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary" planet systems — planets that orbit two stars. The planets in each of these systems have been provisionally named Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b.

The Kepler-35 system is located 5400 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Cygnus. The stars are slightly smaller than our own Sun (80% and 89% in size, respectively) and circle each other every 21 days. The planet Kepler-35b orbits the two stars every 131 days.

Animation created by Lior Taylor . Source http://go.sdsu.edu/kepler/

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