Thursday, July 14, 2005

NASA Scientist Finds World With Triple Sunsets

"'The sky view from this planet would be spectacular, with an occasional triple sunset,' said Dr. Maciej Konacki (MATCH-ee Konn-ATZ-kee) of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., who found the planet using the Keck I telescope atop Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii. 'Before now, we had no clues about whether planets could form in such gravitationally complex systems.'"

3 comments:

Ken said...

Didn't Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine, have two sunsets?

Mac said...

I think it had 3; I read that astronomers are actually referring to planets like the one just found as "Tatooine planets."

razorsmile said...

This is fiction fodder if I ever saw it.