Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Earth-like planets orbiting Alpha Centauri

Cool.

Habitable rocky planets are likely to have formed in the Alpha Centauri system, a trio of stars 4.37 light years, or 25.8 trillion miles, away, a study has shown. Astronomers say if such worlds exist they could be detected using a dedicated telescope.

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Anyone standing on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B would see two "suns" in the sky, a bright "primary" sun and a "secondary" sun which would be much weaker but still many times brighter than the full moon as seen from Earth.

Just like Luke Skywalker's planet.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is cool, although both the suns of Tantooine (phonetic) were about the same brightness.

Danny from Milwaukee said...

Anon,
I also imagine there were more sand people on Tantooine.