A world with two sunsets
An artist's depiction of Kepler-16b. Photo courtesy of Nasa/JPL-Caltech/R Hurt
Nasa's Kepler mission has “discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon, instead of just one”.
The planet, called Kepler-16b, is not thought to be habitable.
It is a cold world with a gaseous surface, but like Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home world in Star Wars, the planet circles two stars.
Source: Popular Mechanics, Nasa
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