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天文学家发现 27 颗潜在行星，每颗行星绕两颗恒星运行，就像《星球大战》中虚构的塔图因行星
这些发现可能是我们目前围绕双星系统的世界数据库的两倍多。但研究人员需要分析更多数据，然后才能正式庆祝一系列遥远的系外行星的诞生
来源:《航空与航天杂志》Astronomers Discover 27 Potential Planets Each Orbiting Two Stars, Just Like the Fictional Tatooine in ‘Star Wars’
这些发现可能是我们目前围绕双星系统的世界数据库的两倍多。但研究人员需要分析更多数据，然后才能正式庆祝一系列遥远的系外行星的诞生
In a memorable scene from Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope, future Jedi Luke Skywalker leaves dinner with his aunt and uncle and heads out to an unusual sunset. On the fictional desert planet Tatooine, not one, but two suns fall toward the horizon.
When the movie came out in 1977, scientists hadn’t yet discovered any planets outside of our solar system, called exoplanets, let alone one orbiting a two-star system. Now, in a study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on May 4—considered Star WarsDay by fans—astronomers say they’ve identified 27 new potential planets, each with two stellar hosts.这个宝库可能使已知的绕双星行星的数量增加一倍以上。
Although Star Wars’ creators were unaware of exoplanets, “a lot of things that are predicted in art and in artistic concepts of what the universe might be, we tend to find it … in science as well,” says Sara Webb, an astrophysicist at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, who was not involved in the research, to the Guardian’s Donna Lu.
Need to know: Why is it “Star Wars” Day?
May 4—or May the 4th, some might say—is an informal commemorative day that’s a play on the popular Star Wars phrase “May the force be with you.” The date spread online among fans, and Disney, which acquired the production company behind Star Wars in 2012, now uses it to promote the franchise, reported the Associated Press’ Andrew DeMillo in 2025.
Real-life Tatooine planet candidates discovered orbiting twin suns