Kepler-1647b: The Largest ‘Tatooine’ Planet With 2 Suns Discovered
Using the Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University (SDSU) were able to identify the new planet Kepler-1647b. Planets that orbit two stars are called circumbinary planets; however, some call them “Tatooine” planets, after Luke Skywalker’s homeland in Star Wars. To discover planets, astronomers look ...