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  1. 29-Aug-2012 #1
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    Astronomers discover Tatooine

    ...well at least something like it...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19401891

    A team reports in Science the discovery of two planets orbiting a pair of stars - a so-called binary.

    Gravitational disturbances generated by stellar pairs are thought to be very severe for any orbiting planets.

    Nasa's Kepler space telescope found two small planets around a pair of low-mass stars.

    Such systems have particular significance for science fiction fans. In the Star Wars films, Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine orbits a binary star.

    The planetary system, known as Kepler-47, is located roughly 5,000 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    I'm sure Lucas is already hard at work trying to figure out a way to ruin this, too.

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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    George Lucas will buy the planet, terraform it and build a Skywalker Ranch.
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    in a galaxy far, far away.........
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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    I'm sure Lucas is already hard at work trying to figure out a way to ruin this, too.
    Special Edition discovery with a 3rd planet digitally added.
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