Even if this planet does not immediately remind you of Luke Sky Walker's home plane, Tatooine, from Star Wars, the poster is still absolutely captivating and fascinating. Kepler-16b was the first poster designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory department in NASA's poster series. At the top of the poster, the theme for the series is revealed in the phrase "exoplanet travel beauty". All the posters represent advertisements for traveling to different places in space - outside as well as within our own small solar system. The exoplanet means that it is a planet located outside our solar system. Whether Kepler-16b looks like it is illustrated on the poster is not known - it could also be, for example, a gas plane. But surely it is that it revolves around a two sun - so that with the double shadows is good enough. A little funfact about the shadows is that when the designers made the poster, the researchers only had one comment: the suns should be different colours, and the same thing wrong with the shadows. The two suns are not the same type of star, which means their light is different.
The poster is designed by Joby Harris, who has stated that Kepler-16b was nothing short of the rest of the NASA posters. With its warm colours, gentle transitions between different objects (no black line) and its symmetry, the poster is incredibly comfortable to look at and dream away in. In addition, the combination of peace, vast expanses and a shadow that is never alone ("where your shadow always has company"), in fact, captures many people's feelings about space. It is infinite, silent and lonely. But it is also spectacular, fascinating and full of phenomena that we have little imagination to grasp. However, with the NASA poster series, the Kepler-16b poster in particular, it becomes a little easier to fantasize about how it would be to travel among planets and stars. The domestic situations create a platform in the stranger and spacy from which one can fantasize further. Of course, the illustrations themselves are also helpful. You are allowed to see how a human would look, placed on the alien planet and influenced by the special conditions of this planet. Like here at Kepler-16b, where the suns give everything two shadows. NASA firmly believes that one must be able to imagine something before one can do it. The fact that a planet with two suns was imagined before it was discovered is a little proof of their claim.
