• Question: in star wars, on the planet tatooine there is a binary solar system. is there any way we have one in the universe? have we discovered one?

    Asked by Sharingan to Camilla, Dan, Katie, Mike, Rhys on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Camilla Weiss

      Camilla Weiss answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Hi Sharingan,

      According to Wookiepedia (I had know idea this even existed!!) Tatooine is the first planet in a binary star system. Cool. Actually – binary star systems do exist in the universe and we’ve even found planets like Keplar47B in orbit around them. You probably wouldn’t want to live on one though – life would be pretty hard with two stars. You’d have huge temperature extremes which would make growing crops very difficult.

      Did you know you can even find multi-star systems in the universe, systems which have more than two stars? Even cooler!

    • Photo: Rhys Archer

      Rhys Archer answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      They do exist! But don’t be expecting a cantina, millennium falcon or storm troopers on there!

    • Photo: Katie Sparks

      Katie Sparks answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      I don’t think I’d like to live on one – 2 Suns?! 1 can be bad enough. How would that effect your sleep – 2 sunrises, or would they happen at the same time?

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