‘Star Wars-like’ planet discovered
Published Friday September 16th, 2011
Postmedia news
An astronomical discovery that would make Luke Skywalker homesick is making waves this week – a faraway planet with two suns.
Photo: Postmedia
This artist’s rendition is of Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars. The planet, in the foreground, was discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission.
A team of experts used the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover the planet, which orbits around two stars – similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Skywalker in the Star Wars films.
In this case, however, the discovery doesn’t get the Hollywood treatment […]
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