the.com/kepler 16b
The only confirmed planet with two suns—sci-fi made real in 2011.
means An exoplanet roughly Saturn-sized orbiting a binary star system 245 light-years away, proving Tatooine wasn't pure fantasy.
from Discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope (named for Johannes Kepler, who described planetary motion). The 'b' simply means it's the first planet found around this binary star pair, Kepler-16.
dual sunsetObservers on the surface would see two stars setting nightly
impossible orbitCircles the common center of gravity, not one star—rare configuration
guest appearanceFeatured in Google Doodle, bringing exoplanet nerdery to millions
hostile real estateGas giant, frigid, deadly—visually stunning, practically uninhabitable