Star Wars planet among 2,700 ‘weird’ new worlds seen in space by Nasa.
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Nasa scientists have detected thousands of secret planets – including one that resembles Tatooine, the home of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker.
As many as 2,700 new worlds have been spotted by the high-tech Kepler space telescope since it was launched four years ago, a London conference was today told.
Some 90 per cent of these should be confirmed as true planets orbiting beyond the Sun, according to astronomers.
Among them is a suspected planet which has two stars setting over the horizon instead of merely one – and which is said by observers to look the most ‘Tatooine-like’ planet in the galaxy.
In the Star Wars films, Tatooine is an arid desert planet heated by orbiting Tatoo I and Tatoo II, while being the home of both Anakin and Luke Skywalker, before being captured and ruled over by Jabba the Hutt.
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The force is strong with this one.
