Kepler Researchers Find Star Wars Tatooine-like Planet

[JonnyDough]

[citation][nom]COLGeek[/nom]So, does this mean around the clock sunlight to keep the Star Wars bar open all the time? If so, I hope the band's music repitoire gets a bit larger.[/citation]

I prefer to drink once the sun goes down. Some people drink prefer to drink alone. I'm fine with that, but I prefer friends. Hell, I just love to drink.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]DSpider[/nom]Except we're looking at a 100.000 million year snapshot in time through telescopes. That planet could've been destroyed for all we know. Or it could contain life. I guess we'll know in 100.000m years or when (if?) someone discovers slipstream/wormwhole technology.[/citation]
100000 million years is a bit of an exaggeration. This planet is located in our galaxy and our galaxy is 100000 light years across. Even Andromeda is closer to earth than 100000 million years (Andromeda is located 2,56 million years from our galaxy).
The Kepler-16 system (the official designation of this system) is located 196 light years from earth.

 

[JasonAkkerman]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]100000 million years is a bit of an exaggeration. This planet is located in our galaxy and our galaxy is 100000 light years across. Even Andromeda is closer to earth than 100000 million years (Andromeda is located 2,56 million years from our galaxy).The Kepler-16 system (the official designation of this system) is located 196 light years from earth.[/citation]


I would seriously be impressed if they could detect planets in other galaxies! But yes, this system is not that far from us. Still well outside of our reach, but close relatively speaking (pun intended).

 

[rosen380]

[citation][nom]DSpider[/nom]Except we're looking at a 100.000 million year snapshot in time through telescopes. That planet could've been destroyed for all we know. Or it could contain life. I guess we'll know in 100.000m years or when (if?) someone discovers slipstream/wormwhole technology.[/citation]

Was '100,000m years' a typo on '100,000' or was it meant as 100,000 million years? For the latter, that is 100 billion, or much older than the universe, so probably not, I guess. For 100k, it would mean that the planet is about 100k light years away. Do you have a source for that?

According to this site: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/, it is only 220 light years away, so our view of it would be just a couple hundred years out-of-date. Or, if someone there was looking back at us, it'd be like 1790 here.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]how is this relevant to PC tech news?[/citation]
Apparently this opens up a whole new category of binary star porn, binary star MMORPGs and even binary star TV shows to torrent. I even hear the aliens on this world have special binary CPUs that are a million time faster.

Or at least they did, before they fapped themselves to death, starved because of addiction to World Of Binarycraft or got executed by the Binary Police for illegal downloading, before eventually the million times faster binary CPUs became self aware like Skynet and blew up the entire solar system about 99 million, 999 thousand years ago.

This time next year you should see the twin supernova and a hundred billion geeky, illegal downloading porn addicts bite the dust.

 

[legacy7955]

I actually like this kind of news. It is interesting and somehow fits here. Plus it is one LESS piece of industry progagenda tripe posted by Wolfgang.

 

[nottheking]

[citation][nom]COLGeek[/nom]So, does this mean around the clock sunlight to keep the Star Wars bar open all the time? If so, I hope the band's music repitoire gets a bit larger.[/citation]
It's a circumbinary star, meaning it orbits around BOTH together. Tatooine didn't have 24/7 sun; it just had two suns that moved through the sky together, which is what is happening in this case.

So fortunately, this means denizens at such a planet will be able to enjoy their drink after sundown.

[citation][nom]agnickolov[/nom]A planet the size of Saturn is still a gas giant. Think, guys![/citation]
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one to know what it means when a planet is 1/3 a Jupiter mass...

[citation][nom]JasonAkkerman[/nom]I would seriously be impressed if they could detect planets in other galaxies!.[/citation]
They actually have, making use of a technique known as "gravitational microlensing." In short, because even objects like stars bend light through their gravity, they can act as very powerful telescopic lenses of their own, on the rare chances that two stars align PERFECTLY upon Earth.

 

[Guest]

Those Kebbler elfs are making more than cookies....lol

 

[vaughn2k]

[citation][nom]agnickolov[/nom]A planet the size of Saturn is still a gas giant. Think, guys![/citation]
The force is weak on this one...

 

[mortsmi7]

Well, at least the cost of solar systems in the US has dropped 29% since 2009.

 

[tomfreak]

did they found a planet call Nvidia and Geforce?

 

[Guest]

The guy who posted these news, forgot one major thing: officialy by the SW canon - there is no planet that's called "Earth" or it's equivalent, in SW universe. Not even our "Milky Way" galaxy or "Solar" system. Some may argue and imply that Endor are the representation of the pre-historic "Earth" in SW universe, but that's just gibberish. My point is: if there is no "Earth" in SW universe (which is pretty clearly shown in the SW Galaxies and KOTOR), then there is no Tatooin in our dimension. It can be a planet that strongly resembles Tatooin or, maybe, even "Arrakis", but that's not the SW Tatooin exactly...humans are so selfsh, always forget that they are not the only ones out there, so they can't take or acclaim everything for their belonging...

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]Master Chen[/nom]The guy who posted these news, forgot one major thing: officialy by the SW canon - there is no planet that's called "Earth" or it's equivalent, in SW universe. Not even our "Milky Way" galaxy or "Solar" system. Some may argue and imply that Endor are the representation of the pre-historic "Earth" in SW universe, but that's just gibberish. My point is: if there is no "Earth" in SW universe (which is pretty clearly shown in the SW Galaxies and KOTOR), then there is no Tatooin in our dimension. It can be a planet that strongly resembles Tatooin or, maybe, even "Arrakis", but that's not the SW Tatooin exactly...humans are so selfsh, always forget that they are not the only ones out there, so they can't take or acclaim everything for their belonging...[/citation]
How can Endor represent a pre-historic earth if it's a moon orbiting a gas giant and it's supposedly a bit smaller than Earth?

Also supposedly the Star Wars story happens in a completely different galaxy. Even the beginning of each movie there's this line "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....", this doesn't sound like a different dimension.

 

[DSpider]

[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]Was '100,000m years' a typo on '100,000' or was it meant as 100,000 million years? For the latter, that is 100 billion, or much older than the universe, so probably not, I guess. For 100k, it would mean that the planet is about 100k light years away. Do you have a source for that?[/citation]
All I know is that IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!

 

[moreinter]

Good to see an Android app released before an Iphone/Ipad one.