DELHI: It appears that George Lucas might have got it right when he envisioned a planet with two suns.
Every “Star Wars” fan knows the scene from the first film. Luke Skywalker walks across his uncle’s farm while watching dual suns set on the planet of Tatooine.
Nearly four decades later, astronomers still haven’t found a planet quite like Tatooine. Researchers used to think it would be unlikely, believing the type of binary star system necessary to create such a sunset would likely only have giant gas planets that couldn’t sustain life as we know it, but a new study says it’s only a matter of time.
The still unpublished story from a pair of researchers from the University of Utah focuses on planet formation, the process where dust and gas surrounding a newly formed star clump together into a planet. For years, it’s been an open question whether that process could work the same way in binary star systems.
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