May The Fourth, a.k.a. Star Wars Day , may have come and gone, but with it came an announcement from a team of researchers that found 27 potential planets orbiting two stars, just like Luke Skywalker’s home world of Tatooine. They aren’t quite in a galaxy far, far away, as they are still firmly within the Milky Way galaxy, but hey, close enough. The findings, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , could more than double the number of known “circumbinary” planets, aka, worlds that orbit two suns. That means maybe one day, deep in humanity’s future, someone will be able to step out of their desert igloo and stare longingly at the setting twin suns as they yearn to be anywhere but here, blissfully unaware of the grand, galaxy-spanning adventure that awaits them. Videos by VICE Until now, astronomers had identified fewer than 20 of these systems, compared to the more than 6,000 planets found orbiting single stars like our own sun.…