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\f0\b\fs24 \cf2 BY LOGAN TITTLE \b0 \
\ Star Wars fans hold on to your force! The
latest space find is showing the first every planetary system orbiting around two suns,
known as a circumbinary system\'97similar to Skywalker\'92s Tatooine. Here\'92s {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://www.kusi.com/"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 KUSI\ulnone }}and {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://www.nbcsandiego.com/"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 KNSD}}.\
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\b \'93Its being called Kepler 47 and it contains a pair of stars orbiting around each other
every seven-and-a-half days.\'94 \b0 \
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\b \'93The planet closest to the suns is about about three times larger than earth. The outer
planet is even larger, slightly bigger than Uranus in our solar system.\'94
\b0 \ \uc0\u8232 Holy Kenobi! The lead author of
the study told {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.space.com/11424-alien-planets-suns-black-trees.html"}}{\fldrslt
\cf3 \ul \ulc3 Space.com}} discovering the double-planet-double-star system could lead
to more findings.\ \
\b "Most of the stars in the galaxy are in binary or higher-order multiple systems, so
the fact that planetary systems can exist in these types of systems is important. If
we were restricted to looking for planets around single stars, we would be missing most
of the stars in the galaxy." \b0 \
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{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.space.com/11424-alien-planets-suns-black-trees.html"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 Space.com\ulnone }}gives a
system setup showing how the planets orbit their double star and revealing there are
four double-star systems that have already been discovered, but they only have one planet.\
\ And a Kepler mission principal investigator
at {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-47.html"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 NASA}} says, while the planetary
system might be inhabitable, the Kepler 47 discovery leads to more opportunities for
life to exist.\'a0\ \
\pard\pardeftab720\sa240\ql\qnatural {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.10news.com/"}}{\fldrslt
\cf3 \ul \ulc3 KGTV\ulnone }}says what\'92s so fascinating was how astronomers found it\'97after
all, it\'92s not the easiest thing to see at 4,900 light years away.\
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\b \cf2 \'93You can\'92t even see the planets through the telescopes. They measure the shadows
and the silhouettes when they moved to determine. It\'92s just amazing...\'94
\b0 \ \
Researchers are preparing to go back to the drawing board for a better understanding of
the new found circumbinary system.}