In Popular Culture
- Binary suns and star systems are featured heavily in the Star Wars films and related material, the most notable example being the system in which the planet Tatooine is located.
- In the Discovery program Alien Planet, the planet Darwin IV orbits a binary system.
- In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the planet Magrathea orbits a binary system
- In Spore, there are planetary systems with two suns.
- In Escape To Witch Mountain and Return From Witch Mountain, Tony and Tia's home planet orbits 2 suns.
- "Futurama" has an episode with three suns.
- In the Invader Zim episode "Planet Jackers", one of the aforementioned Jackers mentions a binary system.
- In Star Trek Voyager, there is a system with two suns.
- In Doctor Who, Gallifrey (the home planet of the Time Lords) has two suns in its planetary system.
- Binary sun systems are featured in the Mass Effect 2 game, these systems are in the Milky Way as explorable areas.
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