Relax on Kepler 16b (IMAGE)
Caption
"Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas giant, like Saturn, so it would have no solid surface to stand on. The view here is of and from an imagined nearby moon. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction."
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Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech https://science.nasa.gov/resource/where-your-shadow-always-has-company/?layout=magic_shell&travel_bureau=true&intent=021
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