Star Wars is real: Life could thrive on planets like Tatooine with two suns... but the plants would be black

It was a fantasy world plucked from George Lucas' imagination.

But life could thrive on a planet like Luke Skywalker's Tatooine, with its two suns, in the Star Wars universe, scientists have claimed.

However, the legendary director did get one detail wrong - the trees would have had black leaves.

Scientists have discovered that the temperature of a star determines its colour - and at different temperatures, life evolves in very different ways.

Photosynthesis - the process by which plants produce energy from sunlight - is altered when the light colour is changed.

Researchers carried out computer simulations to model Earth-like planets either orbiting two stars close together or one of two widely separated stars.

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