http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-discovered-the-largest-tatooine-planet-yet-orbiting-two-sunsScientists just discovered the largest 'Tatooine' planet yet orbiting two suns
((Sounds impossible, right.))
EXCERPT:Located about 3,700 light-years away, in the direction of the Cygnus constellation, lies a distant planet called Kepler–1647b, which at approximately 4.4 billion years of age is roughly as old as Earth.
But that's about where the similarities end, because Kepler–1647b turns out to hold a pretty sensational point of difference: this newly identified world is the largest planet ever discovered that orbits two stars. Known as circumbinary planets, these strange cosmic phenomena are often called 'Tatooine' planets, after Luke Skywalker's dusty desert home.
An international team of astronomers led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre just announced the discovery of Kepler–1647b, which has a mass and radius that are nearly identical to Jupiter's. But just because this circumbinary planet might be the largest of its kind that we currently know about, that didn't make locating it any easier.
"[F]inding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars," said astronomer William Welsh from San Diego State University (SDSU). "The transits are not regularly spaced in time and they can vary in duration and even depth."
