Tatooine-Like Exoplanet Orbits Twin Stars in a Multiplanetary System
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a second planet in a rare multiplanetary circumbinary system, known as BEBOP-1 or TOI-1338. Named BEBOP-1c, this planet was discovered using the Doppler method, where the mass of the planet is determined by measuring the velocity of stars. BEBOP-1c has an orbital period of 215 days and a mass 65 times larger than Earth.An international team of astronomers has announced the second-ever discovery of a multiplanetary circumbinary system.Astronomers at the…