exoplanets, kepler-13ab, nasa, new discoveries, space exploration

Exoplanets Can’t Hide Their Secrets From Innovative New Instrument

In an unprecedented feat, an American research team discovered hidden secrets of an elusive exoplanet using a powerful new instrument at the 8-meter Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawai’i. The findings not only classify a Jupiter-sized exoplanet in a close binary star system, but they also conclusively demonstrate, for the first time, which star ...

Troy Oakes

Artist's conception of the Kepler-13AB binary star system..