Friday, September 16, 2011

New Exoplanet Discovery: Is Life Imating Star Wars

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/new-binary-star-exoplanet/
by Adam Mann


Astronomers have captured pictures of a planet that orbits around two stars instead of one. Nick Gautier, an astronomor at NASA says "If you could visit there, you would see a sky with two stars, just like Luke Skywalker" at a NASA press conference in Pasadea, California. Turns out the new planet, is a gas planet. Sadly, no one will be able to stand and watch a double sunset.