by Ned Potter
You remember from the 1977 movie 'Star Wars', young Luke Skywalker is looking at the sunsets of twin suns on his home planet of Tatooine. You might think that is a clever idea to put i Star Wars. But there is sucha plave like that. NASA has recenty discovered an exoplanet where it has two suns. It was dicovered by NASA's Kepler Spacecraft. The intruments were sensitive enough to detect a dimming of the two stars. The planet is known as Kepler-16b. It is 200 light years from Earth. NASA says that it would not be plesant to live there. They say that it is like a gas hiant like Saturn and Jupiter. Since the two stars are circle each other, they are smaller and dimmer than the sun meaning that it is realy cold there. I know I wopuldn't want to live there.
Poster by Robert Vandiver
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/distant-planet-similar-star-wars-tattooine-circles-twin/story?id=14512728