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2 Stars for 2 Planets

Caption: This is an artist's depiction of the Kepler-47 system. Kepler-47c is the large planet on the left; Kepler 47-b appears as the small blue crescent to the right of the two stars. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 31, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. Orosz at San Diego State University in San Diego, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multiplanet System."

Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

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