Earth-like Tatooines From Star Wars May Be Common “Luke Skywalker’s home in “Star Wars” is the desert planet Tatooine, with twin sunsets because it orbits two stars. So far, only uninhabitable gas-giant planets have been identified circling such binary stars, and many researchers believe rocky planets cannot form there. Now, mathematical simulations show that Earth-like, solid planets such as Tatooine likely exist and may be widespread.”

Planet Hunters Finds Extrasolar Planets Via Crowdsourced Effort – Planet Hunters: The First Two Planet Candidates Identified by the Public using the Kepler Public Archive Data, MNRAS – From the Comfort of Home, Web Users May Have Found New Planets, Yale University Think about this: One would think that with this announcement – one that comes on the heels of the Tatooine discovery last week – that the Kepler team […]