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Tatooine Discovered In Space; Emma Stone And More Reenact Star Wars Scene For ST2C! |
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Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:00 |
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Thanks to The New York Times, we have the following discovery of a real life "Tatooine"! Here is just a small excerpt from their report, but be sure to click on the link below if you're interested in reading it in full.
Sometimes the orange sun rises first. Sometimes it is the red one, although they are never far apart in the sky and you can see them moving around each other, casting double shadows across the firmament and periodically crossing right in front of each other.
Such is life, if it were possible, on the latest addition to the pantheon of weird planets now known to exist outside the bounds of our own solar system. It is the first planet, astronomers say, that has been definitely shown to be orbiting two stars at once, circling the pair — which themselves orbit each other tightly — at a distance of some 65 Read more: |
