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Do we have a planet which have two Suns ? And the answer is Of course we do have a planet which has two suns which sets over the horizon instead of one.

What is an exoplanet?

An Exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most orbit other stars, but free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, orbit the galactic centre and are released to any star.

The first exoplanets were discovered in the 1990s and since then we’ve identified thousands using a variety of detection methods. It’s pretty rare for astronomers to see an exoplanet through their telescopes the way you might see Saturn through a telescope from Earth.

Exoplanets come in a wide variety of sizes, from gas giants larger than Jupiter to small, rocky planets about as big around as Earth or Mars. They can be hot enough to boil metal or locked in deep freeze. They can orbit their stars so tightly that a “year” lasts only a few days; They can orbit two suns at once(For eg:Kepler16-b)

What is Kepler 16-B?

Kepler-16, also known as Kepler-16b, is the first exoplanet to be discovered in a “circum-binary” orbit. This means it orbits two stars instead of one. 

The planet (Kepler-16b) was discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission on 15th September 2011 ,which is designed to find planets that are similar in size to Earth. When the telescope observed the star, Kepler-16b was nearly 80% larger than Earth.

A Saturn-sized alien planet that orbits around two stars at once has been detected by astronomers using a ground-based telescope in France.

Kepler 16-b has got two sunsets over the Horizon instead of one.

The Kepler 16b discovery shows how exciting planets can be. The next step is to find out if they really live up to their designation as “Super-Earths”.