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Researchers Identify 27 New Candidate Worlds Orbiting Two Stars
Key Takeaways
- A UNSW team says it found 27 candidate circumbinary planets using NASA TESS data.
- The search relies on apsidal precession, tracking changes in eclipsing binary stars rather than only direct transits.
- The result suggests planets orbiting two stars may be more common than current catalogs indicate.
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