In the Star Wars movies, Darth Vader was an evil force cloaked in black with an evil helmet. The Kepler space telescope may have just discovered Vader's home world. According to NASA. the new planet orbits a star ~750 light years away and is stranger than anything comparable in our solar system. David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics comments: "It's darker than the blackest lump of coal or darkest acrylic paint you might paint with." [caption ...