The planet has a mass and radius nearly identical to that of Jupiter, making it the largest transiting circumbinary planet ever found, Xinhua reported. Planets orbiting two stars are called circumbinary planets, or sometimes "Tatooine" planets, after Luke Skywalker's homeland in "Star Wars". "But finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars," said co-author William Welsh of the SDSU. ALSO READ:1,200 light-years away, a planet may have active lifeMysterious planet is third largest dwarf in solar system and has some 'dark secrets' The stars it orbits are similar to the Sun, with one slightly larger than our home star and the other slightly smaller.

Source: India Today June 14, 2016 04:30 UTC