Kepler-16b: The Real Two-Sun Planet

What if I told you there’s a planet with two suns… and it’s real? This is Kepler-16b,

a planet located about 200 light-years away, and it orbits two stars at the same

time—just like something straight out of Star Wars. Imagine looking up and seeing two

sunsets in one sky. But this planet is no paradise. Kepler-16b is a massive gas giant,

similar to Saturn, with no solid surface to stand on. And it’s freezing cold,

with temperatures dropping to around minus 100 degrees Celsius. A single year on

Kepler-16b lasts just 229 Earth days, and the sky is constantly shifting as its two suns dance around

each other in space. Kepler-16b was the first planet ever discovered that orbits two stars,