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Uploaded by on Jan 18, 2012

Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.

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Read more about NASAs Kepler Mission: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-16b.html

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Produced by Hank Green
Chief Editor: Blake de Pastino
Cinematography: Nick Jenkins
Video Editor: Matt Ferguson
Graphics: Amber Bushnell
Written by: Jesslyn Shields

TAGS: star wars, tatooine, kepler, kepler 16b, astronomy, binary star system, star, solar system, moon, tardigrade, astrobiology, dantooine, luke skywalker, hank green, scishow, dose

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  • Dantooine is rural and farming. Mostly plains and fields. Yavin IV is what your thinking of thats swampy with a rebel base.............3 cheers for us REAL fans :P!

  • Orbits 2 stars, too cold to live there.

    What at troll planet

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  • some how it orbits 2 suns but its cold there

    somebodys lie'n

  • is that planet really bigger than the stars?

  • Wait a second... you said it is too cold to live there so wouldn't that make it Hoth instead of Tatooine?

  • @bobtheman1y you mad bro

  • I really like this show. But in the spirit of science it would be nice with the temperatures in Celcius (or Kelvin if you rather prefer that).

  • wrong planet that is jupiter

  • Science: A new hope

  • @Th3GoldenGam3r Guilty.Proven guilty not innocent.Seems I'm the retarded one.

  • @necronsplayer Let's presume he's innocent of this vile crime until proven innocent.Let's say it's his editor that's retarded,mkay?

  • he should do a video about absolute 0

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