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Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings (bigthink.com)

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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] 48 points 9 months ago

Oh no. The trisolarians are coming!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Dehydrate!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hydrate me when the next stable era comes along.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Even 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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] 5 points 9 months ago

Cosmic polycule

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

this new is 3 years old from what I can see

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Pitch Black theme intensifies

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