Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; Hebrews 1:2
They were once confined to science fiction (Tatooine), but the
discovery of Kepler-16b paved the way for the detection of 14 transiting
planets in 12 binary systems by NASA’s Kepler/K2 and TESS missions.
“Of the 12 transiting circumbinary planet systems discovered so far, only one hosts multiple circumbinary planets: Kepler-47,” said Ohio State University astronomer David Martin.
The newly-discovered planet orbits TOI-1338, a binary system some 1,317 light-years away in the constellation of Pictor.
Also known as TIC 260128333, TYC 8533-950-1 and 2MASS
J06083197-5932280, the system consists of two eclipsing stars that orbit
each other with a period of 14.6 days.
One star, TOI-1338A, is about 10% more massive than our Sun, while
the other, TOI-1338B, is cooler, dimmer and only one-third the Sun’s
mass.
In 2020, TOI-1338b, a circumbinary planet 6.9 times the size of Earth and an orbital period of 95 days, was discovered in this system using TESS data." SciNews