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To: Windflier
"Someone on Kepler-16b would see two suns hanging near each other in the sky, just as Luke did on Tatooine."

Provided of course that the surface temperatures on Kepler-16b didn't boil away the vitreous humor in the viewer's eyes first.

3 posted on 09/18/2011 8:43:09 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Provided of course that the surface temperatures on Kepler-16b didn't boil away the vitreous humor in the viewer's eyes first.
The planet is outside the habitable zone, and very cold. It is also a gas giant, like Saturn, so there is no where to stand. However,Gas Giants generally have large moons, so someone standing on a moon of that planet will no only see this

But possibly this, as well

23 posted on 09/19/2011 5:49:37 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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