• Question: Dear Stefan, In your opinion what is the most interesting planet and why?

    Asked by Jenny (-: to Stefan on 13 Nov 2014.
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      Stefan Lines answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Hmmm, good question. I’ve researched lots of interesting planets. Big ones, small ones, fast ones, hot ones… I’ll give you two. One of them is a general type of planet that I work on called Circumbinary Planets (Kepler-34b for example) which are fantastic because they have two suns, and hence two sunsets.

      The second one is a planet called Beta Pictoris B, which we’ve only discovered very recently, and believe it spins on its axis at about 90,000 km/h, which means it has a day in just 8 hours!

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