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Press release content from Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. New Study From University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Identifies Five Double-Sun Planets That Could Support Life May 11, 2021 GMT New Study From University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Identifies Five Double-Sun Planets That Could Support Life URBANA, Ill. - May 11, 2021 - ( Newswire.com ) Luke Skywalker’s view of two suns in Star Wars is fictional, but recent research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that five known systems having double-star planets like Tatooine could support life. “We used data collected by the Kepler spacecraft such as the mass of the stars, how bright the stars are, the location of a giant planet, and other parameters to create a methodology to identify systems with two suns that can host habitable Earth-like planets,” said Siegfried Eggl, faculty member in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Cham

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