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'Tatooine-like' double-star systems can host planets
Source: BBC
29 August 2012 Last updated at 07:30 GMT
'Tatooine-like' double-star systems can host planets
A new study shows that planetary systems can form and survive in the chaotic environment around pairs of stars.
A team reports in Science the discovery of two planets orbiting a pair of stars - a so-called binary.
Gravitational disturbances generated by stellar pairs are thought to be very severe for any orbiting planets.
Nasa's Kepler space telescope found two small planets around a pair of low-mass stars.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19401891
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