NEW YORk: The single best known planet in the Star Wars films is Tatooine, a hot desert planet with two suns. It is the home planet of Luke and Anakin Skywalker (a.k.a. Darth Vader) and is one of the settings for the seventh film in the series which is due out in December.
For the last decade fans of the films have been a bit disappointed because, according to physicists, the planet was impossible. Theoretically, only gas giants were capable of forming in binary star systems and the data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope seemed to support that idea. To date only seven planets have been found in such systems and all of them have been Neptune or Jupiter sized gas giants.
