Kepler Telescope Data of Planet B (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Kepler Telescope Data of Planet B

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Scientists analyzed Kepler Telescope data and identified KOI-872 as a stellar system where measured transits of a planet orbiting the star show large time variations (the shifting bumps in the data) indicative of a hidden companion. A team led by Southwest Research Institute and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics determined that the observed variations can be best explained by an unseen planet about the mass of Saturn orbiting the host star every 57 days.

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Southwest Research Institute

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