Risian Posted May 26, 2021 Posted May 26, 2021 Discovering Circumbinary Star Systems View File May the Fourth Be With You! When the first Star Wars movie was released in 1977, it featured the now-iconic two-sun, “circumbinary” planet Tatooine. At that time astronomers didn’t really know if such solar systems existed. Indeed, the first extra-solar planet wasn’t detected until the early 1990s. And, the first actual circumbinary planet was detected in 2005, and it was a Jupiter-size planet orbiting a system composed of a sun-like star and a brown dwarf. Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA) Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Pacaud, D. Coe Submitter Risian Submitted 05/26/2021 Category Objects Requires base game item
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