Was just reading about yet another awesome discovery made using the Kepler space telescope. Astronomers have discovered a saturn-size planet which orbits in a binary star system. Much like the fictional Tatooine from "Star Wars", this planet experiences double-sunsets from its surface (and other cool variations of the two stars rising and setting at different distances from each other relative to the planet). Too cool!
Here's an image (artist rendering of course) from the NASA press release:
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