Where No Gay Has Gone Before: First Tattooine, now Vulcan
NASA announced earlier it might have located Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tattooine. For the past nine years, NASA has embarked on a planet finding mission, SIM PlanetQuest to find Mr. Spock’s home Vulcan. Astronomers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory are searching for a planet orbiting 40 Eridani, a triple-star system about 16 light-years from Earth. ‘Vulcan’ is thought to orbit the red-orange K dwarf star Eridani A. K-stars are orangey stars, slightly cooler than our sun. They are hotter, brighter and bluer than M stars, but cooler, dimmer and redder than O, B, A F and G stars. Did you get … Read more