Scientists discover planetary system orbiting Kepler-47

News flash: The Milky Way galaxy just got a little weirder. Back in 2011 astronomers were amazed when NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovered a planet orbiting a double star system.  Such a world, they realized, would have double sunsets and sunrises just like the fictional planet Tatooine in the movie Star Wars.  Yet this planet was real.

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