Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings
Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings
Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn't stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.
It was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.
Oh no. The trisolarians are coming!
47 0 ReplyRoll me up and throw me on the pile until the next epoch.
17 0 ReplyDehydrate!
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Can I please go and live in that system, I don’t like it here anymore
35 0 ReplyEven though stars come in singlets, binaries, trinaries, and even greater numbers of multi-star systems, we’d only ever found stars orbiting one — or, at most, two — stars.
I think they mean planets.
14 0 ReplyThey mean stars. This is notable because it's the first planet found orbiting more than two stars.Nevermind, that is written horribly. I think you're correct.
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Cosmic polycule
5 0 Reply4 0 Replythis new is 3 years old from what I can see
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