Looks like I'm going to be hunting some womp rats because Tatooine is now charted on my navi-computer. Alright I may be getting ahead of my self assuming that this planet the Kepler space observatory has discovered orbiting two suns is actually Tatooine but the young moisture farmer inside me wants to believe! Sadly, though, considering its gaseous make up, similar to Saturn, it's doubtful there are any Jawas rolling around in monstrous Sand Crawlers or Tuskan Raiders leading herds of banthas under the heat of the two suns. I suppose there is still hope for any of the planet's potential moons. Looking further into the situation though it turns out that such an occurrence of a dual sun system isn't an anomaly restricted to the Outer Rim territories. Binary star systems are systems, in which two stars orbit around their shared center of mass, make up half of the stars in the known universe in some estimates. But, what makes this event extraordinary is the existence of the Tatooine copy cat. Whether or not binary systems could form and support orbiting planets has been under dispute for some time-- until now that is. "It's been pretty much a split vote amongst the theorists, [but], One of the exciting things about this is: Kepler, as usual, has answered the question for us," said Alan Boss, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Words that spring hope in my heart but sadly don't change the physical make up of this newly discovered planet.
So for now it will have to remain a dream of mine to bullseye some womp rats in Beggars Canyon since the Star Wars galaxy remains so "far, far away"... Wake me up when that Kepler thing finds an artificial moon orbiting a planet encompassed entirely in forest.
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