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

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/planet-orbiting-3-stars/

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

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MrPozor@discuss.tchncs.de · 48 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Oh no. The trisolarians are coming!

chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

brrt@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Dehydrate!

Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Hydrate me when the next stable era comes along.

misterdoctor@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y

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

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y

~~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.

BKXcY86CHs2k8Coz@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

Cosmic polycule

skyin7@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y

pedroapero@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

this new is 3 years old from what I can see

fayaz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Pitch Black theme intensifies