Tatooine-like planet discovered

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 14:30 in Astronomy & Space

Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is still the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker’s home world of Tatooine. Like...

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