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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

AROUND TWO SUNS THRIVE NASA TELESCOPE TO FIND PLANETS


Using the Spitzer Space Telescope NASA astronomers have observed that planetary systems - dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets - are so abundant in double star systems as single stars in systems such as ours. Since more than half of all stars are twins, or binaries, the finding suggests that the universe is full of planets with two suns. Sunsets on some of those worlds would resemble that of Luke Skywalker's planet, Tatooine, where two fiery balls dip below the horizon one by one.