April 3, 2016 1:30 p.m..
KELT-4AB was surprise to experts who revealed him as the new planet
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a team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said there is a solar system triple with a planet in stable orbit.
This research was published in the journal “the Astronomical journal” and experts believed that it was something different.
the KELT-4AB, which was discovered 40 years ago, it was composed of two stars. However, one of the stars was a set of two stars.
The known planets with three stars are not very common, and the new findings reveal a room.
Research appealed to the new planet with a gas giant, similar in size to Jupiter afternoon about three . Earth days to make a full turn around the KELT-A
two other stars: KELT-B aND KELT-C are located further and take 4,000 years to orbit KELT-A .
The distant stars orbit each other in a translation that lasts 30 years.
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It was possible to obtain much information about the new planet due to the double telescope KELT, with facilities in Arizona, United States and Sutherland (South Africa).
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