A Sky With Two Sunsets Is Real: The Planet That Orbits Two Stars at Once, 245 Light-Years Away
The 'twin sunset' sky from Star Wars isn't just movie magic. Kepler-16b, a Saturn-sized gas planet 245 light-years away, orbits a pair of stars that circle each other every 41 days — completing its own lap around both of them every 229 days. It survives the double gravity simply by keeping its distance.