NASA Latest News: George Lucas Is Accurate In Depicting ‘Star Wars’ Universe; More Luke Skywalker’s Tatooine Planets To Be Searched
George Lucas' "Star Wars" movies remain as the blueprint for what the Earth's future might look like in the not-so-distant future. Its depiction of exoplanets is not just fiction movie anymore. A team of scientists from NASA is trying to find a planet similar on the movie - the Tatooine - where Luke Skywalker lived.
Outside the solar system, thousands of exoplanets were identified by NASA that might be humans' next destinations. Interplanetary scientists have discovered some planets that are accurately depicted in "Star Wars" or those that have icy, desert, and water-covered worlds.
In 2011, astronomers found a planet with twin stars, just like Tatooine, where Luke Skywalker grew up. The astronomers named it as Tatooine, which was endorsed by the "Star Wars" creator.
NASA used its Kepler space telescope to probe a Saturn-like planet called Kepler-16b. The Tatooine exoplanet is located 200 light-years from Earth and orbits two suns. The two suns reveal that half of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy are pairs.
The astronomers posted three possibilities about Tatooine. Their theories surmise that Tatooine is probably too cold and gaseous to be home to life. Another theory sees the planet as a desert. They do not downplay the possibility of another Tatooine twin that might be habitable.
Tatooine is located in the Cygnus constellation in the Milky Way. The scientists hypothesized a planet where visitors would have two shadows and see two rainbows in a storm. The sunset in the "Star Wars" planet would amaze visitors due to the varying positions of the twin suns as they disappear in the horizon.
In "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones," a planet called Kamino was featured. Kamino was depicted as a world covered entirely by ocean. NASA has not yet identified planets that are similar to Kamino but Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus might fit the bill.
The video below discusses if the double sunset is a work of fiction, or if a binary star system is possible? Share your thoughts in the comment section!
