Since its launch in 2009, NASAs Kepler telescope has discovered more 1,000 alien worlds.
The posters are labelled, as supposed to have come from NASA’s fictional Exoplanet Travel Bureau.
“I was thinking … we may be not alone.
Harris, the lead artist, was inspired by the enduring appeal of vintage art deco-style posters.
“People gravitate toward those old posters.
They hang them on their walls even today and you want to go there.
They’re a celebration of place.
Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun.
This discovery was made by Kepler, NASA’s planet hunting telescope.
Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars.
Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn.
But the discovery indicates that the movie’s iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.
