A Planet with four Suns

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Five thousand light years away from this planet lies the new discovered planet that recieves light from four suns. The planet has been named PH1 after the Planet Hunters site.

It is thought to be a "gas giant" slightly larger than Neptune but more than six times the size of the Earth. Astronomers say the distant world orbits one pair of stars and has a second stellar pair revolving around it-something that makes the discovery more fun and peculiar.

credit:Haven Giguere/Yale University

PH1 was discovered by two US volunteers using the Planethunters.org website and confirmed it using the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.









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