Kepler-16b NASA’s New Found Planet: Stuff You Wouldn’t Believe: International PNP®

The Discover Magazine Vol. 33, no.1 (Jan./Feb. 2012) page 20, tells about Kepler-16b. A planet revolving around a binary star- two stars orbiting one another. They are about 560 light-years away, per the 2011 September NASA Press Conference at Ames Research Center, California USA, it is the size of Saturn, made up of half gas and half rock,it is colder than Antarctica and it has two suns in the sky. The Discover Magazine has an artist idea of what this would look like, this image is a Getty Image.