#ScienceFiction is informed by #Science

And Science in turn stares at Science Fiction, nods, and smiles broadly

"On ‘ #StarWarsDay’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker"

A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two suns

More than half of all stars exist in binary star systems or star systems with even more than two stars

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/04/scientists-discover-27-potential-new-planets

#MayThe4th #MayThe4thBeWithYou

#ScienceFiction is informed by #Science

And Science in turn stares at Science Fiction, nods, and smiles broadly

"On ‘ #StarWarsDay’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker"

A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two suns

More than half of all stars exist in binary star systems or star systems with even more than two stars

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/04/scientists-discover-27-potential-new-planets

#MayThe4th #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Happy #MayThe4th ! Here's a photo I took at @esoastronomy 's Paranal Observatory in #Chile, with one of our 8-m telescopes aiming its four lasers at the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.

The lasers excite sodium atoms high up in the atmosphere, creating artificial "stars" whose twinkle we can measure in real time to correct atmospheric turbulence and get super sharp images.

This is how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QC2cLroDc

#StarWars #StarWarsDay #astronomy #space

Happy #MayThe4th ! Here's a photo I took at @esoastronomy 's Paranal Observatory in #Chile, with one of our 8-m telescopes aiming its four lasers at the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.

The lasers excite sodium atoms high up in the atmosphere, creating artificial "stars" whose twinkle we can measure in real time to correct atmospheric turbulence and get super sharp images.

This is how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QC2cLroDc

#StarWars #StarWarsDay #astronomy #space