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NASA discovers planet with double suns. Whether or not it is Tatooine is debatable.

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.

“This discovery confirms a new class of planetary systems that could harbor life,” Kepler principal investigator William Borucki said. “Given that most stars in our galaxy are part of a binary system, this means the opportunities for life are much broader than if planets form only around single stars. This milestone discovery confirms a theory that scientists have had for decades but could not prove until now.”

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

NASA video render of the solar system here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=111428821

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