Planetary transit events on Kepler-1647 (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Planetary transit events on Kepler-1647

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Artist’s impression of the simultaneous stellar eclipse and planetary transit events on Kepler-1647. Such a double eclipse event is known as a syzygy.

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Lynette Cook

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