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Sep 15 2011 06:20pm
http://news.yahoo.com/planet-star-wars-tatooine-discovered-orbiting-2-suns-181404397.html

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It's a real-life Tatooine. A spectacle made popular by the "Star Wars" saga — a planet with two suns — has now been confirmed in space for the first time, astronomers revealed.


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"Again and again we see that the science is stranger and cooler than fiction," Knoll said during a NASA press conference today. "The very existence of these discoveries gives us cause to dream bigger, to question our assumptions."



The real question is: When are we going to bomb the Tusken Raiders for having WMDs?!
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Sep 15 2011 06:56pm
heard this on radio @ work today too. 2 sunsets and 2 sunrises :O

wasnt listening too closely but i believe 1 had a more reddish tint where the other had more of an oranger tint.

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Sep 16 2011 10:50am
Pathetic stars keep their orbiter at a hospitable -100 centigrades.
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Sep 16 2011 02:41pm
thats pretty cool xD
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Sep 17 2011 11:35am
then planets with 3 suns are also possible?
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Sep 17 2011 11:47am
Binary Star Systems are quite common actually, in the 1980s i believe, rober muller hypothesised that our Solar System could likely be a binary system, having a dark star with a very long period eliptical orbit around our sun. It would never come close enough to see with the naked eye, but it could come close enough to perturb the oort cloud.

Which also provides creedence to the regular mass extinction cycles which seem to come on a set amount of time-basis.
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Sep 17 2011 12:34pm
It wouldn't have mattered if they didn't even find one. It was obvious they existed, kind of like aliens.
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Sep 17 2011 02:24pm
Quote (Torm1 @ Sep 17 2011 08:47pm)
Binary Star Systems are quite common actually, in the 1980s i believe, rober muller hypothesised that our Solar System could likely be a binary system, having a dark star with a very long period eliptical orbit around our sun. It would never come close enough to see with the naked eye, but it could come close enough to perturb the oort cloud.

Which also provides creedence to the regular mass extinction cycles which seem to come on a set amount of time-basis.


This was new info, thx!
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