A Pair of suns setting in tandem sounds surreal. But that's exactly what you would see if you visited the newly discovered planet Kepler 16b, 200 light years from Earth. There, an orange star and a smaller red one orbit each other. NASA's Kepler space telescope saw tiny dips in their brightnesses due to a planet passing in front of them, reports a team led by Laurance Doyle of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. It is the first planet confirmed to orbit two stars.
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