NASA's Kepler discovery confirms first planet orbiting two stars
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA's Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet -- a planet orbiting two stars -- 200 light-years from Earth.