Science fiction is slowly turning into real life as humans continue to improve their technologies and see the depths of the universe more accurately. It can be said that Star Wars is one of the greatest movies that inspired generations of scientists and engineers, because the movie that was shown on the big screen in the 1970s was simply awe-inspiring. Now, astronomers have observed that Luke Skywalker is a space fantasy, but worlds similar to his desert planet Tatooine are real.Planet similar to Tatooine discovered
Astronomers along with everyone else noticed that there were two Suns on Luke Skywalker’s planet on Tatooine. A new study, now confirmed by astronomers, shows that a Tatooine-like planet exists and has been named BEBOP-1C. As the planetary findings are published in the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers studied this circular system with a planet with two suns or a planet orbiting two stars.
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BEBOP-1C is located about 1,320 light-years from Earth. Researchers estimate that BEBOP-1C is about 65 times larger than Earth, or about five times smaller than Jupiter. A year on the Tatooine-like planet is roughly 215 Earth days. According to NASA, binary stars orbit each other every 15 days. One is about 10 percent larger than the Sun; the other is cooler, dimmer and only one-third the mass of the Sun.Scientists hope they can learn more about the composition of the planet with the James Webb Space Telescope. The scientists also aim to do follow-up research on BEBOP-1C and find more sister planets. On the other hand, previous studies indicated that planets in circular systems could be suitable for life. In an article published in the journal Nature Communications in 2017, this issue was examined with computer models and it was concluded that exoplanets orbiting binary stars can drink water and sustain life if they are at the right distance, despite the differences in the amount of light they receive from the stars.
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