Circumbinary planet

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Artist's conception of HD 98800 would look like.

A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one because the stars are so close together that they can only form outside of the orbits of both stars.

Circumbinary planets in Sci-Fi

• Tatooine appears to be a circumbinary planet

External Links

• The Orbital Evolution of a Circumbinary Planet
• On the formation and migration of giant planets in circumbinary discs
• On the evolution of giant protoplanets forming in circumbinary discs