The next possible ‘earth’ could be a planet with two sunsets

The next possible ‘earth’ could be a planet with two sunsets

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There are five systems more than a trillion miles from Earth with multiple sunsets that can be hospitable for life. If several solar powers think of Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in Star Wars, you will not be too far away. Four of these five systems are binary star systems, one of which at least four solar stars revolve around each other at a central point. This news comes via a new report published by the team of scientists who claim to have discovered evidence that these five systems could potentially support life, as reported by Cnet.

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The five systems are known as Kepler-34, Kepler-35, Kepler-38, Kepler-64 and Kepler-413. The system with at least four solar stars is Kepler-64, while the scientific team says that the other four have two suns, like Tatooine. However, do not expect anyone in our lifetime to reach these systems, as according to Cnet they are between 2764 and 5933 light-years from Earth, and one light-year equals about 6 trillion miles. Let that math break your brain for a moment.

Each of these systems, according to Cnet, has at least one ‘giant planet the size of Neptune’ or larger, and each has a ‘habitable zone’, an area where liquid water may be present.

“Life will most likely evolve on planets within the habitable realm of their system, just like Earth,” co-author Nikolaos Georgakarakos reported in a release, as reported by Cnet. “Here it is investigated whether there is a habitable zone within nine known systems with two or more stars orbiting giant planets. We show for the first time that Kepler-34, -35, -64, -413 and especially Kepler-38 is suitable for presenting earthy worlds with oceans. ‘According to Cnet, binary galaxies such as Kepler-34, -35, -413, -38 and the planet Tatooine ‘are estimated to represent between half and three-quarters of all galaxies, and only giant planets have been discovered in them so far. ‘Scientists believe that smaller, non-giant, terrestrial planets can hide in these systems.

“We have known for some time that binary star systems without giant planets have the potential to house habitable worlds,” co-author Ian Dobbs-Dixon reported in a release, as reported by Cnet. “What we have shown here is that terrestrial planets can remain habitable in a large proportion of these systems, even in the presence of giant planets.”

The team came to this conclusion by observing a number of factors in these five systems, such as the “class, mass, brightness and spectral energy distribution of the stars”, as well as the gravitational effect and impact of radiation that these giant planets would do. according to Cnet on a potential terrestrial planet.

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“Our best candidate for hosting a world that is potentially habitable is the binary system Kepler-38, about 3970 light-years from Earth, and which is known to contain a Neptune-sized planet,” Georgakarakos said. . “Our study confirms that even binary star systems with giant planets are hot targets in the search for Earth 2.0. Beware Tatooine, we’re coming.”

Maybe humans will reach these galaxies far, far into the future, but for now, we Earthlings will have to get ready to just watch movies with binary solar planets like in Star Wars.

Speaking of Star Wars, check out every modern IGN review of Star Wars movies and then read IGN’s list of the 25 best sci-fi movies. Look at this story about possible signs of life that are subsequently detected on Venus and then read how future life possibilities on Mars continue with this discovery made in 2019.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer, guide, and science guru for IGN. You can follow him Twitter @LeBlancWes.

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