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Jump88of 100 · 245 light years from Earth

Kepler-16 b: a planet with two suns

Kepler-16b was the first confirmed planet orbiting two stars, like Tatooine. Facts about this world with their sources.

NASA illustration of Kepler-16b passing in front of its two stars; it is not a photo
Illustration, not a photo Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech · original

Curious facts

  1. Two suns

    In 2011 it became the first confirmed planet orbiting two stars at once. 12

  2. Not Tatooine

    It is not a desert like the one in Star Wars but a cold gas world, yet from there you would see two sunsets. 12

Kepler-16 b in Orbit

In the game, Kepler-16 b is jump 88 of the route, 245 light years from Earth. Its logbook card says:

Logbook · Jump 88

It has two suns, like Tatooine

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What Orbit is like

Sources

  1. NASA Photojournal, PIA14724. science.nasa.gov/photojournal/where-the-sun-sets-twice-artist-concept
  2. CfA Harvard, 2011. cfa.harvard.edu/news/star-wars-science-fact-tatooine-planet-discovered

Checked between 8 and 11 October 2026.

Illustration, not a photo Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech · original