From BLOOMBERG:
The 1977 movie ‘Star Wars’ featured a planet with two suns called Tatooine. Now scientists said they’ve found the first real two-sun planet 200 light years away from Earth. ..
The new planet, called Kepler-16b, is about the size and mass of Saturn, according to the study, and was found using NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Kepler-16b moves in a circular orbit 65 million miles from its suns. Unlike Tatooine, the hot, desert planet portrayed in ‘Star Wars,’ Kepler-16b is far too cold to support life, with temperatures about 100 degrees centigrade lower than Earth, Boss said today in a telephone interview.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kepler mission has found more than 1,200 planets so far, while another 600 have been found by ground-based efforts, Boss said. Other planets orbiting two suns may soon be found, he said…
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