Planets like Tatooine..

Illustration of Kepler 35b

In September of 2011, astronomers discovered the first planet in our galaxy that orbits two different starts. Since then, scientists at San Diego State University have found two more of these circumbinary planets in our Milky Way through the Kepler spacecraft.  The first planet to be discovered was in in the what is known as the habitable zone. In the habitable zone, liquid water is suppose to exist, meaning life could possibly exist. The reason life could not live on these circumbinary planets is because they are either too close to the sun, or too far from the sun. Two of the planets found identify about the size of Saturn and are both very gaseous. Kepler 34b  is 4,900 light years from Earth, and Kepler 35b is 5,400 light years away from earth.
         I find this article to be very interesting. Because we have found three of these circumbinary planets, they are considered to be a new class of planetary systems. Scientists will now start to compare the differences of the planets and really look in depth at these special planets. I think its really cool that circumbinary planets would have two sunsets and two different sunrises every single day. It is also amazing that if it was the right temperature for life to live on, with the liquid water, life could live on this planet. I would love to live on a planet with two different sunrises and sunsets. I hope that Kepler finds even more of theses planets, and maybe someday, astronauts will be able to go and see the beauty.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/scientists-find-more-planets-orbiting-two-stars.html?ref=planets

Kepler 34b