# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BS6vyvFBS5r
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736051-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-04-15T19:34:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

[Artist Concept] With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA'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?

It turns out, such a planet could be quite hospitable if located at the right distance from its two stars, and wouldn't necessarily even have deserts. In a particular range of distances from two sun-like host stars, a planet covered in water would remain habitable and retain its water for a long time, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications.

This artist's concept shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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