FMWT Playlist #453 – 5/7/21
When the first Star Wars movie was released in 1977, it featured the now-iconic two-sun, “circumbinary” planet Tatooine. Fast forward a few decades and researchers working with data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovered the mission’s first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars, as shown in this image from January 2020. The planet, called TOI 1338 b, […]