The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star 
Wars" might not be a fantasy.

Now playing at 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/spitzer/spitzer20070329/ is a video 
comparing the double sunsets of the "Star Wars" planet, Tatooine, 
with recent findings by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.  The 
telescope found signs that planetary systems around double stars are 
at least as common as they are in single-star systems like 
ours.  This suggests the universe could be packed with planets that 
have two suns. Sunsets on some of those worlds would resemble the 
ones on Tatooine.


-- Ronn!  :)



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