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  • What is the name of the third transiting planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System discovered by astronomers from San Diego State University?


  • Options
  • A. Kepler-47d
  • B. Kepler-47c
  • C. Kepler-47b
  • D. Kepler-47a

  • Correct Answer
  • Kepler-47d 

    Explanation
    A group of researchers, led by astronomers at San Diego State University, by using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn size planet orbiting between two previously known planets Kepler-47b and Kepler-47c. This new planet named as Kepler-47d. The research was recently published in the Astronomical Journal.According to a new study, Kepler-47d is about seven times larger than Earth and also the largest of the three planets in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system. The Kepler-47 system is approximately 3.5 billion-years-old and it is 3,340 light years away in the direction of the constellation Cygnus.

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