Beyond Tatooine: Double Suns and The Graveyard in Space

Send us Fan Mail Read companion article Listen on YouTube The iconic double sunset from Star Wars promised us alien worlds bathed in twin starlight—romantic, plausible, inevitable. Binary star systems are everywhere. Most stars are born with companions. Planet formation should work. The Tatooine fantasy should be real. Then NASA's Kepler telescope revealed the truth: a cosmic graveyard. Among 3,000 perfectly observed eclipsing binary systems, Kepler found only 14 confirmed circumbinary ...