Kepler 16b The World With Two Suns Like Tatooine

Unlike Star Wars’ Tatooine, the planet is cold, gaseous and not thought to harbor life, but its discovery demonstrates the diversity of planets in our galaxy. Previous research has hinted at the existence of circumbinary planets, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Kepler detected such a planet, known as Kepler-16b, by observing transits, where the brightness of a parent star dims from the planet crossing in front of it... [more]
Source : Nasa

 
THE NEWS POINTER: Kepler 16b The World With Two Suns Like Tatooine