Tatooine in reality: What did Kepler discover about binary stars?
Every year we find more and more distant worlds that have been hiding from us for centuries in the vast depths of space and time. According to the European Encyclopedia of Exoplanetary Systems, new technologies and detection methods have so far confirmed the existence of 6,887 confirmed exoplanets in 4,940 planetary systems.
The variety of worlds beyond our solar system exceeds all expectations: hot evaporating planets, oceanic worlds, super-earths and super-Saturns: the imagination of the cosmos is truly incomparably richer than our own.
Today we will explore worlds that could only have been dreamed of in science fiction films a few decades ago - planets with two suns.
0:00 Introduction. A variety of exoplanets.
1:12 Circumbinary and circumstellar orbits
2:20 Kepler-16: Star System
2:57 The third invisible body in the system
4:02 Description of the planet Kepler-16 b
4:48 Kepler-16 b structure
5:03 Kepler-16 b is a rare exception?
6:19 Discovery of other circumbinary planets
6:35 Planetary systems of two stars: Kepler-47
8:47 Conclusion. Subscribe to the channel!
Music:
Fantasy World by Alex-Productions
Sky by Alex-Productions
Clouds from Alex-Productions
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