Three Eclipsing Bodies
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Channel: NASA Video · 2013 · Science & Technology
This artist's movie illustrates Kepler-16b, the first directly detected circumbinary planet, which is a planet that orbits two stars. The movie begins by showing the gaseous surface of the rotating planet then pans out to show the stars it orbits. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
