#Called BEBOP-1c
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The celestial object of the day is TOI-1338b, unofficially known as Wolftopia!

This planet orbits around two stars, causing irregularities in its orbit, making it vary between 95 and 93 days. Although its orbit will keep being stable for another ten million years, its angle towards us will change, meaning that we can't see another transit until 2031.
#Image credit: NASA#I wish I could be more specific with the credits but I can't find the original author anywhere#if someone knows please tell me#Aaand fun fact: wolftopia has a planetary sibling#Called BEBOP-1c#I love acronyms ♡♡#astronomy facts#astronomy#astrophotography#outer space#space#nasa#nasa photos#science#space exploration#space photography#celestial object of the day#TOI-1338b#exoplanets#Wolftopia
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Circumbinary systems contain planets that orbit around two stars in the center instead of just one, like in our solar system. Circumbinary planets orbit around both stars at once. The discovery, led by researchers at the University of Birmingham, is reported in the journal Nature Astronomy. The newly discovered planet is called BEBOP-1c, after the name of the project that collected the data. BEBOP stands for Binaries Escorted By Orbiting Planets. The BEBOP-1 system is also known as TOI-1338. In 2020, a circumbinary planet, called TOI-1338b, was discovered in the same system using data from NASA's TESS space telescope, to which the Birmingham team also contributed. That planet was discovered with the transit method and was noticed because it passed in front of the brighter of the two stars on several occasions.
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