MEXICO: A planet from the “Star Wars” movies featured a visually striking sunset thanks to the presence of two suns, and now science fiction has inspired scientists to discover more about how planets are formed and theorize that planets orbiting two stars may actually be widespread in our galaxy.
Tatooine is the home of Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars”, and the desert planet is famous for its twin sunsets—shown in a scene early on into Episode IV. Researchers at the University of Utah said they now believe planets like Tatooine are real.
“The sunset that Luke Skywalker saw on his home planet Tatooine was inspirational to us, it showed us a normal planet, well it looks like Utah, and yet it was around this very, very exotic pair of stars,” said Ben Bromley, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Utah.
With the idea that planets that can host life can be anywhere in the universe, Bromley decided to take a close look at the dwarf planet Pluto.
Bromley co-authored a study with planets with two suns may be widespread of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Pluto has a large moon called Charon, and together they form a binary partnership. Once the researchers understood how particles flow around a binary system, they immediately saw a connection with the stars—like the host stars for the planet Tatooine.
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