LeviF Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/15/tatooine-gives-first-direct-proof-of-2-sun-planet/?&hpt=hp_c2 Luke Skywalker looks out over a desert dominated by two setting suns in an iconic scene from "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope." But this isn’t just the stuff of fiction. Now, astronomers have confirmed the first direct evidence that planets with two suns do exist. Scientists at NASA and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute [sETI] are informally calling the newly discovered world Tatooine, as homage to Skywalker's planet imagined by George Lucas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Tatooine? Crap, L. Ron Hubbard was right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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