NASA’s TESS Telescope Should Spot Many ‘Star Wars’-Like ‘Tatooines’

Written by  on January 13, 2018 

The hope is that TESS will detect more real-life circumbinary star systems — not unlike Tatooine, the fictional go-to circumbinary prototype featured in the original “Star Wars.” To do that, TESS will first look for the eclipse of two closely orbiting binary stars. Then it will look for the telltale stellar dimming …

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