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Tatooine is a fictional desert planet that was seen in the Star Wars saga. The planet appears in every Star Wars film except The Empire Strikes Back. It is home planet of Luke and Anakin Skywalker and has two suns.

From a long time, physicists have been saying that the planet was impossible. As per some scientific theories, only gas giants were able to form in binary star systems. Kepler Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) supported that idea. Till now, just seven planets have been discovered in such systems. All of them are big in size and could be equal to Jupiter or Neptune.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity analyzed several rock samples from three different locations in the lower regions of Mount Sharp.

The rover has discovered a two-tone vein of unique mineral compositions. There were also prominent veins that showed the mountains layers, revealing different stages of weathering.

The two toned minerals were found in ridges along a site called ‘Garden City’ where bedrock has eroded and exposed these veins. Garden City sits 39 feet above the lower edge of the Pahrump Hills outcrop, which is part of the basal layer of the 3-mile-high Mount Sharp.

Fair Issac, the company that provides credit scores, is coming up with a new score especially for those who currently do not have the same. The program will be rolled out in next few months making it easier to get a Visa or MasterCard.

On Thursday, FICO announced that it will launch a pilot program to help a number of Americans to have an easy access to credit. Basis of the same will the record of paying utility bills and not the history of loan repayments.

It is estimated that the reach of the program will be massive. It has been said so as around 53 million Americans do not have FICO scores created by the company Fair Isaac. It is vital as 90% of the lending decisions are based on that score.

Dr. Aude Olivia from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) produced an image that could tell how good your eyesight is. Now, ASAPScience has made a video which exhibits the effect of the image. The video explains that if a person is at a normal distance from the image and has decent eyesight, then the person will see Albert Einstein in the image. But, if the person sees Marilyn Monroe in the image then the individual must see an optometrist.

Saturday’s lunar eclipse is a blood moon. The moon on this day will gradually wander into earth’s shadow and the shadow will completely cover the moon and block all its light. The phenomenon will create a total eclipse making the moon to glow red.

The total eclipse will only be visible to people living in the western half of the United States and to people in the Pacific, East Asia, and Oceania. The eclipse will start at 4.58 am Pacific and will last for just five minutes.

On the East Coast, the sun would have risen by that time making the blood moon to be invisible. But then also, Easterners could wake up before sunrise and have a slight look of the partial eclipse started at around 6.16 am.

It is hard to believe that it was a quarter century ago when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was launched. There is no denying the fact that the telescope has transformed our collective consciousness.

People across the globe have seen pictures from the world's biggest telephoto camera in space. With the help of it, they have been able to enjoy the universe’s surprising beauty, understanding the importance of the universe.

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with the telescope and deployed the telescope to its 345 mile high orbit and till now, it is present there.