00:00What if I told you a real-life Tatooine exists, with two suns blazing in its sky?
00:05Well, scientists just found it!
00:08446 light-years away lies HD 143811 b,
00:12a giant gas planet orbiting not one, but two stars.
00:16Just like Luke Skywalker's home planet in Star Wars,
00:19this world glows under twin sunsets.
00:21It's six times bigger than Jupiter,
00:23and orbits its suns at a distance 80 times greater than Earth from ours.
00:27The crazy part?
00:29One year on this planet lasts 300 Earth-years.
00:32Even though it's farther from its stars than Pluto is from our sun,
00:35it's still a scorching 730-degree.
00:38Why? Because its suns are wild, spinning around each other every 18 days.
00:42What's truly mind-blowing is how this planet was found.
00:45It wasn't through a new telescope.
00:47It was hiding in old data from 2016.
00:50Two separate teams, in the US and UK,
00:52both spotted the same mysterious object moving with the stars.
00:56After the final telescope confirmation in Chile, they proved it,
00:59a brand-new exoplanet.
01:01And get this, it's only 13 million years old.
01:04That's younger than the extinction of the dinosaurs.
01:07Scientists say this rare find could unlock huge secrets
01:10about how planets form in double-star systems.
01:13And maybe, just maybe, one day we'll find an Earth-like planet orbiting two suns.
01:18So, the galaxy far, far away might be a lot closer than we think.
01:22Believe in the sun,
01:24you didn't know about thepat!
01:25You can see there are entire maps!
01:27Because of it, maybe, one casey,
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