Kepler-16b was the Kepler telescope’s first discovery of a planet in a “circumbinary” orbit (that is, circling both stars, as opposed to just one, in a double star system). The same could said for Kepler-16b, a cold gas giant roughly the size of Saturn, that orbits two stars.
And May the Fourth be with you! Planets With Two Sunsįrom Luke Skywalker’s home world Tatooine, you can stand in the orange glow of a double sunset. Some of these alien worlds could be very similar to arid Tatooine, watery Scarif and even frozen Hoth, according to our scientists.įind out if your planet exists in a galaxy far, far away or all around you. Astronomers have found over 3,700 planets around other stars, called “exoplanets.”
It’s possible that your favorite planet exists right here in our galaxy. Is your favorite Star Wars planet a desert world or an ice planet or a jungle moon?
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