NASA Spacecraft Discovers Planet Orbiting 2 Suns, Just Like Star Wars

An illustration of the planet called Kepler-16b (foreground) which orbits two stars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kepler spacecraft has found a planet that orbits two stars just as Luke Skywalker’s home world does in the Star Wars movies, NASA announced Thursday.

An orange sun and a red sun that actually orbit each other define daytime on Kepler 16b, the 21st planet outside our own solar system discovered by  planet hunter.