19-12-2016 23:51 via uk.news.yahoo.com

NASA Hunts for 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Planets

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered a Saturn-size planet called Kepler-16b, which is located 200 light-years from Earth and orbits two suns — just like Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine. "Astronomers have discovered that about half of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are pairs, rather than single stars like our sun," NASA officials said in a statement.
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