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Three planets and two stars adds up to one research team made very happy by Kepler's unique discovery

Cuddles

"Binary star systems with planets may be a rarity"

Even that isn't true. Planets seem to be less common in binary systems, but around 1/3 of them still have planets. Sure, it's less than single systems where most of them probably have planets, but it's hardly rare.

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