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Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings

It was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings

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discuss.tchncs.de

Oh no. The trisolarians are coming!

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chemical_cutthroat reply

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

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brrt reply

sh.itjust.works

Dehydrate!

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Eyelessoozeguy reply

Hydrate me when the next stable era comes along.

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

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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.

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Cethin reply

~~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.

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sh.itjust.works

Cosmic polycule

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this new is 3 years old from what I can see

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Pitch Black theme intensifies

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