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		</div><p>A Jupiter-sized “Tatooine” planet with two suns in its skies that could have habitable moons has been discovered 3,700 light years from Earth.</p>
<p>The new world, Kepler-1647b, is the largest known to orbit two stars, like the fictional planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movies.</p>
<p>It is one of more than 1,200 extrasolar planets detected so far by the US space agency Nasa’s Kepler space telescope.</p>
<p>Astronomers found it by studying the tiny dip in light that occurred when the planet moved in front of, or transited, its parent stars.</p>
<p>Nearly half of all sun-like stars are in gravitationally-bound binary systems, but to date only nine planets orbiting paired stars have been discovered by Kepler.</p>
<p>All those previously found have been Saturn-sized or smaller, and tended to orbit close to their host stars.</p>
<p>Kepler-1647b, whose discovery was shared by Nasa on Twitter, has an orbital period of three years, the longest of any confirmed transiting planet.</p>
<p>In addition, it lies within its host stars’ habitable zone – the orbital band in which temperatures are mild enough to allow liquid surface water, and potentially, life.</p>
<p>Although the planet itself is too large to be habitable, it could have moons that support life, the scientists believe.</p>
<p>Astronomer Dr Nader Haghighipour, from the University of Hawaii, said: “A giant planet similar to those in our solar system may well host undetected large moons that could be habitable.”</p>
<p>Kepler-1647b, which lies in the direction of the constellation Cygnus, is believed to be around 4.4 billion years old – roughly the same age as the Earth.</p>
<p>Maybe in the future, it’ll prove a useful hide-out for outlaws, like Tatooine sheltered Anakin and Luke Skywalker.</p>
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