{"id":132411,"date":"2021-12-14T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/weve-found-a-unique-giant-tatooine-planet-that-orbits-two-stars-say-scientists"},"modified":"2021-12-14T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:23:46","slug":"weve-found-a-unique-giant-tatooine-planet-that-orbits-two-stars-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/weve-found-a-unique-giant-tatooine-planet-that-orbits-two-stars-say-scientists","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Found A Unique Giant \u2018Tatooine\u2019 Planet That Orbits Two Stars Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weve-found-a-unique-giant-tatooine-planet-that-orbits-two-stars-say-scientists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers just found something unique in the Milky Way\u2013a giant exoplanet in a 200-days orbit around two stars.<\/p>\n<p>In a find that remind us of that binary sunset in the original Star Wars movie, the Tatooine-like \u201cTIC 172900988b\u201d is a Jupiter-sized planet.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a \u201ccircumbinary\u201d planet, TIC 172900988b\u2019s existence has been revealed in a paper published in the Astronomical Journal by a team led by Veselin B. Kostov of the SETI Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Although not unique in being a circumbinary planet\u2013astronomers have found 14 such bodies so far\u2013it\u2019s the most massive transiting circumbinary planet to date.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also the first to be found using a single set of data from NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) all-sky survey space telescope.<\/p>\n<p>However, finding it wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/weve-found-a-unique-giant-tatooine-planet-that-orbits-two-stars-say-scientists\">Continue reading \u201cWe\u2019ve Found A Unique Giant \u2018Tatooine\u2019 Planet That Orbits Two Stars Say Scientists\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers just found something unique in the Milky Way\u2013a giant exoplanet in a 200-days orbit around two stars. In a find that remind us of that binary sunset in the original Star Wars movie, the Tatooine-like \u201cTIC 172900988b\u201d is a Jupiter-sized planet. Known as a \u201ccircumbinary\u201d planet, TIC 172900988b\u2019s existence has been revealed in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}