Quest for Moderate Tatooines Begins
Yale study finds climate-friendly Tatooine-like planets in binary star systems, suggesting orderly cosmic alignment.
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Yale study finds climate-friendly Tatooine-like planets in binary star systems, suggesting orderly cosmic alignment.
<p>Luke Skywalker’s childhood might have been slightly less harsh if he’d grown up on a more temperate Tatooine — like the ones identified in a new, Yale-led study.</p> <p>According to the study’s authors, there are more climate-friendly planets in binary star systems — in other words, those with two suns — than previously known. And, they say, it may be a sign that, at least in some ways, the universe leans in the direction of orderly alignment rather than chaotic misalignment.</p>
A Yale-led study has found a plethora of planets in binary star systems that offer more temperate climates thanks to their orderly alignment.
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