Double Sunsets on Kepler-16b

Kepler-16b circles not one, but two stars locked in a slow gravitational dance—a warm orange

dwarf and a dimmer red companion. Every dawn begins with a double sunrise, their light casting

twin shadows across the planet’s dusty plains. The world itself is a cold,

Saturn-sized gas giant, shrouded in peach-colored clouds and laced with violent jet

streams that sweep around the planet in continuous spirals. Though it sits beyond the system’s habitable

zone, its skies are a mesmerizing kaleidoscope—bronze storms illuminated by two shifting

suns, endless twilight zones where the stars eclipse one another,

and moments of sudden darkness as both stars slip behind the horizon at once. Orbiting moons—hypothetical