
The double sunset in the movie "Star Wars" might not be longer pure movie fiction. The detection of a body orbiting around a binary star system in the constellation Drago leads to the possibility that this might be the first planet found in association with two suns. The eclipses between the stars gave the initial lead to an international team of scientists led by Hans Deeg of the Astrophysical Institute of the Canary Islands. The candidates to illuminate this supposed planet are two binary stars 52 light years away from Earth, which orbit each other so close that they eclipse themselves
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