The Star Wars’ best planet Tatooine, a hot desert planet with two suns, and home to Luke and Anakin Skywalker, is also one of the settings for the seventh film in the series which is due to be out in December.

But researchers through a newly conducted study suggest that planets as that of Tatooine are not only possible but could even be quite common.

According to study authors Ben Bromley of the University of Utah and Scott Kenyon of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Tatooine sunsets might be common.

They further said their main result is that outside a small region near a binary star planet formation can proceed in quite a similar way as around a single star.

The NASA funded study titled ‘Planet formation around binary stars: Tatooine made easy’. The study has been submitted to the journal Astrophysical Journal. Also an un-reviewed copy of the study has been published on the ArXiv website.

As per experts, the study was a follow-up of earlier work by the two researchers that showed that Pluto and its largest moon Charon act like a binary system, with four smaller moons orbiting both.

According to researchers, the drawback of previous studies was that they focused on circular earth like objects.

Kenyon, said, “Planets form like dust bunnies under your bed, glomming together to make larger and larger objects. When planets form around a binary, the binary scrambles up the dust bunnies unless they are on just the right orbit”.

However, according to the research, the orbit of a planet like Tatooine would be an oval, with ripples caused by the cyclic tugging of the two suns orbiting one another.

Ben said that stars like Tatooine were inspirational to several of them. It was disappointing when earlier theories predicted that generating Earth-like planets would be problematic or impossible, he said.