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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Tatooine, Luke Skywalker’s home planet in the Stars Wars films, has two Suns ____ what astronomers would call a binary system. Scientists have discovered recently that planets really can form within such systems.
A
FACT
B
FICTION
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The newfound exoplanet, Kepler-453b, is 1, 400 light-years from Earth. It orbits in a two-sun-or binary-system. Planets in such a system are called “circumbinary” for the fact that they circumnavigate both stars.

Detailed explanation-2: -Every time Tatooine appears on screen, the two suns are close together in the sky. This probably means that the suns are a close binary and that Tatooine orbits both of them. Daniel Gallacher.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tatooine was a sparsely inhabited circumbinary desert planet located in the galaxy’s Outer Rim Territories. Part of a binary star system, the planet orbited two scorching suns, resulting in the world lacking the necessary surface water to sustain large populations.

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