On 15/10/2012 6:05 PM, wrote:
On 10/15/2012 1:51 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Although these writers are unimaginatively talking about the double-star
Tatooine of the Star Wars universe, they don't really know that this
star system actually more closely describes the quadruple-star Cyrannus
star system of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica 2003 universe.

"Amateur astronomers have helped discover an alien planet with two suns
and a twinkling twist: The entire twin-sun setup, a real-life version of
Tatooine from "Star Wars," is orbited by two more stars — a solar system
that is the first of its kind known."

'Tatooine' Alien Planet Has 2 Suns, 4 Stars, Amateur Team Finds |
Exoplanets | Space.com
http://www.space.com/18065-alien-pla...uns-stars.html

For comparison the Battlestar Galactica 2003 star system map:
2D: http://is.gd/NnrlU9
3D:
http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/upl...colonies_1.jpg


Yousuf Khan


And just how many "microns" away is this star system?

Hey, that's the original Battlestar Galactica measurement system. They
never used it in the new BSG.

Yousuf Khan