Planet with four suns discovered by 'armchair astronomers'

Planet

considered six times the size of Earth called planet hunters after PH1 website used by two American volunteers

A planet with four suns was identified by two astronomers "chair".

The bright new world, nearly 5,000 light-years, is believed to be six times larger than the Earth. It revolves around a pair of stars and is in turn surrounded by a few seconds, which means four stars illuminate the night sky.

A handful of known planets orbiting binary star pairs, but the new finding is said to be unique.

"It is fascinating to try to imagine what it would be like to visit a planet with four suns in the sky, but this new world is to confuse astronomers - is not entirely clear how it formed in such a half occupied environment, "said Dr Chris Lintott of Oxford University.

• The planet was discovered by two American volunteers who use the site Planet hunters led by scientists, including Lintott. It allows visitors to identify the decline in production in stars, because the light is blocked by "transit" of the stars they orbit.

Jek Kian
, San Francisco, and Robert Gagliano, Cottonwood, Arizona, discovered the effect that the new planet passes in front of their suns.

A team of professional astronomers have confirmed your search using the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The planet was named after the site of PH1 Planet hunters.

Arfon Dr. Smith, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and a member of the planet hunters team, said: "This is an amazing discovery, but what is even more exciting is that, with more data than currently add to planethunters. org for anyone to explore, do not know what our next chair Astronomers discover. "

Details of the discovery were presented Monday at the Division of Planetary Sciences in Reno, Nevada.

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