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Post #536528

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Marty.McFly
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars
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Date created
15-Sep-2011, 3:36 PM

Inevitable Tatooine connection.

"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."

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-16b.html

 

Video

http://youtu.be/PE1e9ihO_uc