NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Kepler-16b, A Planet Orbiting Two Suns (2011)

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NASA's Kepler mission has turned fiction into fact. A world with a double sunset that was first imagined in "Star Wars" over 30 years ago in a galaxy far, far away has become scientific reality. Credit: NASA / Ames Research Center

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