ASTRONOMERS using data from the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope have found a wild card of a world: a planet so wobbly that its “seasons” could be in constant flux.
This planet, called Kepler-413b, is about 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, and it orbits a binary pair of stars that are circling each other. This gas giant weighing roughly 65 Earth masses orbits every 66 days, too close to the stars to be habitable.
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