{"id":311363,"date":"2017-05-05T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2defd58513e9f808e290f330ab845dc0"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:10:01","slug":"image-illustration-of-an-earth-sized-tatooine-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=311363","title":{"rendered":"Image: Illustration of an Earth-sized &#8216;Tatooine&#8217; planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker&#8217;s home planet Tatooine in &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA&#8217;s Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star systems can indeed support planets, although planets discovered so far around double-star systems are large and gaseous. Scientists wondered: If an Earth-size planet were orbiting two suns, could it support life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker&#8217;s home planet Tatooine in &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA&#8217;s Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star systems can indeed support plane&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311364,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311363\/revisions\/311364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}