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| Author: | trekkie [ September 15th, 2011, 11:05 pm ] |
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http://news.yahoo.com/planet-star-wars- ... -suns-181404397.html It's a real-life Tatooine. A spectacle made popular by the "Star Wars" saga — a planet with two suns — has now been confirmed in space for the first time, astronomers revealed. Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope captured details of a giant planet in orbit around the pair of binary stars that make up the Kepler-16 system, which is about 200 light-years away. "This discovery is stunning," said study co-author Alan Boss at the Carnegie Institute in Washington. "Once again, what used to be science fiction has turned into reality." When Tatooine was depicted on film, many scientists doubted that such planets could really exist. Now there's proof. "It's possible that there's a real Tatooine out there," said John Knoll, visual effects supervisor at the special-effects firm Industrial Light and Magic, which was behind the "Star Wars" films. "Kepler 16b is unambiguous and dramatic proof that planets really do form around binaries." The new discovery is expanding the bounds of what scientists, as well as filmakers, can conceive, he said. "Again and again we see that the science is stranger and cooler than fiction," Knoll said during a NASA press conference today. "The very existence of these discoveries gives us cause to dream bigger, to question our assumptions." |
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| Author: | Adbot [ September 15th, 2011, 11:05 pm ] |
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| Author: | Duke Juker [ September 15th, 2011, 11:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: real tatooine |
I think George Lucas has been hiding something all these years. Anyone else think so, too? Honestly, I doubt he could have come up with this stuff all by himself. He has some "outside help"... |
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| Author: | trekkie [ September 16th, 2011, 12:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: real tatooine |
well, as written by dan brown in angels and demon "All good science fiction, has some bases in science fact." |
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| Author: | Pfkninenines [ September 16th, 2011, 7:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: real tatooine |
Na, if George Lucas had any outside help, you'd think they would help him make a new movie series so he didn't have to re-release and alter his previous movies to make more money. Looks like Kepler-16(AB)-b isn't in the Goldilocks zone, so while it may exist, life on it likely does not. |
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| Author: | trekkie [ September 17th, 2011, 9:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: real tatooine |
I believe the question now is, are there sand people there? |
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| Author: | Smallfib [ September 17th, 2011, 9:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: real tatooine |
Whoah haha... That's pretty awesome. In other news, a huge explosion rained down over a forest moon... |
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| Author: | Adbot [ September 17th, 2011, 9:19 am ] |
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| Author: | Pennstate315 [ September 17th, 2011, 12:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: real tatooine |
Interesting find, just show how much we still have to learn about the universe, |
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| Author: | trekkie [ September 17th, 2011, 3:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: real tatooine |
now the question is... when is night time? |
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