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Was a real-life Tatooine spotted by NASA?

May 4, 2022

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In 2020, NASA’s TESS satellite spotted an exoplanet, located 1,300 light-years away, that orbited a binary star system just like the desert planet Tatooine from the beloved film series, ‘Star Wars.’

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