Re: NASA: 'Star Wars'-Type Double Sunset Might Be Possible

2007-03-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: 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. A _real double sunset_ would be a rare occasion, because even if planets around double stars are common (something that

Re: NASA: 'Star Wars'-Type Double Sunset Might Be Possible

2007-03-30 Thread Klaus Stock
Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronn! Blankenship wrote: 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. A _real double sunset_ would be a rare occasion, because even if planets

NASA: 'Star Wars'-Type Double Sunset Might Be Possible

2007-03-29 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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