A spinning planet has been discovered by researchers about 2,300 light years from Earth. The planet Kepler-413b completes a revolution of its two suns in 66 days. An orange and red dwarf are the two suns of the newly discovered planet.

The planet is a gas giant that is larger than the planet Neptune. Researchers discovered the new planet with the help of data from the Kepler Space Telescope. The telescope has helped researchers discover more than 3,000 planets outside our solar system.

The telescope looks for details of planets by observing transits that are less bright portions of stars because of something passing between the telescope and the star. Periodic occurrence of transits helps researchers to reach at the conclusion that there exists a planet in a regular orbit around the star. Thus, researchers extract more information about the nature of the planet by using that data.

However, the recent discovery of the planet was unusual experience for researchers. Actually, when they were examining these two stars, they saw that there was something passing in front of the two stars, but the appearance was not regular. They found that the same object transits the star three times every 66 days. After that they found that there were 800 days without any transit. Then, there were five transits about 66 days and so on.

Researchers reviewed the data and found that a planet causing these transits. However, the plant was unusual because it was wobbling. "Presumably there are planets out there like this one that we're not seeing because we're in the unfavorable period", researcher Peter McCullough noted in a NASA press release.