Break out the Star Wars jokes..

NASA's Kepler spacecraft team has found..a planet orbiting a binary star system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/science/space/16planet.html?src=tp&smid=fb-share

Real name "Kepler 16b"..but the scientists still call it Tatooine.

They say that Jupiter could almost have been a star. In the animation shown it appears that system operates as if their Jupiter was a star, but the planet goes way out Pluto's way and isn't in an earthlike orbit.

carguy123 wrote: They say that Jupiter could almost have been a star. In the animation shown it appears that system operates as if their Jupiter was a star, but the planet goes way out Pluto's way and isn't in an earthlike orbit.

Yeah, finding a planet around a binary is one thing..finding one that would be stable enough to live on is something else. I wish I was good enough at physics to determine what its orbit looks like.

It's not that hard. I used to blast Womp Rats back home on my T-16...

Appleseed wrote: It's not that hard. I used to blast Womp Rats back home on my T-16...

Nice shot kid, Now don't get cocky!

Appleseed wrote: It's not that hard. I used to blast Womp Rats back home on my T-16...

You shoot small animals for fun? That's like the sign of a serial killer or something!

NASA does sience stuff too? Cool!

But I was going to go to Tashi station to pick up some power converters!

I got a bad feeling about this.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

red 5, standing by..

Red Foxx, standing by...

Pick up your visual scanning.....

Red Button, standing by...