If ever there was a destination worthy of a winter getaway, then it’s Kepler-16b, “the land of two suns”.
The planet, discovered in 2011, is one of three exoplanets (planets that orbit a star other than our sun), depicted in a series of striking vintage-style travel posters produced by Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The posters, credited to the fictional Exoplanet Travel Bureau, feature wry slogans playing on the characteristics of each planet. The dual-star planet Kepler-16b, for example, is “where your shadow always has company”.
Kepler-186f, discovered in April 2014 and a place notable for its red-wavelength rays, is pitched as the place “where the grass is always redder on the other side”.
The third planet to be depicted is HD 40307g, a “super earth” eight times the mass of our home planet, which boasts a “much, much stronger” gravitational pull. The poster features a person in a wingsuit plunging towards its surface.
But whether prospective tourists are drawn by the poster, or its gravity, at 44 light years away, it may be a trip to save for the future.
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/jan/09/winter-suns-nasa-vintage-travel-posters-newly-discovered-planets
