Astronomers find place with two suns just like Tatooine in Star Wars
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IT’S LIKE SOMETHING STRAIGHT OUT OF THE STAR WARS MOVIE FRANCHISE!
ASTRONOMERS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW SOLAR SYSTEM WHERE PLANETS ORBIT TWO SUNS, JUST LIKE LUKE SKYWALKER’S HOME PLANET, TATOOINE (TA-TOO-EEN)!
THE RARE PHENOMENON IS ONLY THE SECOND-EVER SOLAR SYSTEM FOUND WHERE PLANETS MOVE AROUND MORE THAN ONE STAR – GIVING THOSE PLANETS A DOUBLE SUNSET.
THE SYSTEM WAS UNEARTHED BY ASTRONOMERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, WHO CALL IT BEBOP-1C, AFTER THE NAME OF THE PROJECT THAT COLLECTED THE DATA.
BEBOP STANDS FOR BINARIES ESCORTED BY ORBITING PLANETS AND THE BEBOP-1 SYSTEM IS ALSO KNOWN AS TOI-1338.
THREE YEARS AGO THE RESEARCHERS FOUND ANOTHER PLANET ORBITING TWO SUNS CALLED TOI-1338B, IN THE SAME SYSTEM USING DATA FROM NASA’S TESS SPACE TELESCOPE.
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