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Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings (bigthink.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

this new is 3 years old from what I can see

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Cosmic polycule

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh no. The trisolarians are coming!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Roll me up and throw me on the pile until the next epoch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dehydrate!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hydrate me when the next stable era comes along.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even though stars come in singlets, binaries, trinaries, and even greater numbers of multi-star systems, we’d only ever found stars orbiting one β€” or, at most, two β€” stars.

I think they mean planets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~They 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Can I please go and live in that system, I don’t like it here anymore