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Re:New Tatooine-like exoplanet found orbiting twin suns by jeejay on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:02AM (#36307518)
Lem's "Solaris" also described a planet near double star. Don't want to argue much about imaginary worlds but how Tatooine and Solaris systems differ from each other?
Re:New Tatooine-like exoplanet found orbiting twin suns by messe on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:04AM (#36307938)
With regards to the planets themselves, Solaris is covered in an ocean (spoiler rot13: na bprna bs try gung vf erirnyrq gb or n fvatyr, cynarg-rapbzcnffvat ragvgl), whereas Tatooine is a desert planet.

The systems are different in that Tatooine (as far as I remember) orbits around a pair of stars. Solaris is orbiting between the two stars in an orbit that should be highly unstable but for reasons unknown the planet appears to be stabilizing itself.