Kepler Discovers a Planet with Two Suns - NASA Science

Sep 15, 2011 19:12

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/15sep_doublesuns/

The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA's Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet -- a planet orbiting two stars -- 200 light-years from Earth.

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