NASA finds Tatooine!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14940885

i don't get it

Not impressed.

*waits for Coruscant discovery*

  On 9/16/2011 at 3:17 PM, BCM said:

i don't get it

Planet Kepler 16B orbits two stars in a system about 200 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus. Kepler 16b circles the two stars at a distance of 65 million miles, while the stars themselves circle each other more closely. Some astronomers refer to Kepler 16b informally as Tatooine, which also has two suns. "NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars, 9/15/2011".

oh right. i guess..

Yeah I think someone fiddled with link its meant to go the BBC article not wikipedia.

not about tatooine, but did this amazing article about a SUN THAT IS SHOOTING WATER JETS INTO INTERSTELLAR SPACE get posted here yet?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110613-space-science-star-water-bullets-kristensen/

  Quote

Seven hundred and fifty light-years from Earth, a young, sunlike star has been found with jets that blast epic quantities of water into interstellar space, shooting out droplets that move faster than a speeding bullet.

 

The discovery suggests that protostars may be seeding the universe with water. These stellar embryos shoot jets of material from their north and south poles as their growth is fed by infalling dust that circles the bodies in vast disks.

The question is...

Does it have a Sarlacc?

Does it have Mos Eisley?

Is its surface a green screen?

  On 9/16/2011 at 8:23 PM, baph said:

Is its surface a green screen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tataouine

Tataouine's a real place, OP. You wouldn't need to work at NASA to find it, just a map of Morocco.

Way to go on the whole not reading the thread thing. AKA read the thread.

  On 9/16/2011 at 3:36 PM, data said:

Planet Kepler 16B orbits two stars in a system about 200 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus. Kepler 16b circles the two stars at a distance of 65 million miles, while the stars themselves circle each other more closely. Some astronomers refer to Kepler 16b informally as Tatooine, which also has two suns. "NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars, 9/15/2011".

 

When I heard the story on NPR I was like "Tatooine!?" and my wife thought it was cute. That's why I married her. The end.

Fellow nerds get married tonight at 10