Kepler-16b
circumbinary planet · a real world with two suns
245 light-years from Earth
The first planet seen passing in front of two stars at once (2011). From its cloud tops there would be double sunrises and double sunsets. It is a cold gas giant, not a desert world.
- Saturn-sized · orbits both stars every 229 days (sped up here)
- its two suns rise and set together
- kind
- planet of another star
- size
- 105,000 km across
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