Astronomers discover Tatooine-like exoplanet orbiting twin suns in multiplanetary system.
Astronomers have discovered a new circumbinary planet, BEBOP-1c, in a star system around 1,320 light-years from Earth, making it the 15th known Tatooine world. The discovery is further proof that these Star Wars-like planets are more common than scientists previously thought. The BEBOP-1 system is also a multi-planetary circumbinary system (MCS), with the previously known BEBOP-1b being around the same size as Saturn. The team will continue to study the BEBOP-1 system to learn more about how circumbinary planets form, and there is a chance that the system contains even more planets waiting to be detected.