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Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have found that twin-star systems are just as likely to be surrounded by dusty debris disks as ones with only a single star. Debris disks are made up of asteroid-sized rock chunks and other material that could be leftovers of planets that have formed in the system.
The majority of stars like our Sun have at least one stellar companion. Astronomers have theorized that planets could form with little trouble in two-star systems, called binaries, despite the more complex gravitational tugging. The new study provides strong observational evidence to support that idea.
A human gazing at a double sunset on a world with two Suns like Skywalker’s Tatooine might not find the scene so alien after all, Trilling said. “It would be kind of like what you see on Earth, but with an extra Sun following in the sky,” he said. “Maybe it’s a little hotter during the day.”
SOURCE:
Space.com
Originally posted by Terapin
Interesting find, but the headline, that worlds with two suns are common, is misleading.
Binary systems are the oddity and not the norm.