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submitted 6 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/space@lemmy.world

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 points 6 days ago

Oh no. The trisolarians are coming!

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

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

[-] brrt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago
[-] Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Hydrate me when the next stable era comes along.

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

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

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 15 points 6 days 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.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

Cosmic polycule

[-] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

this new is 3 years old from what I can see

[-] skyin7@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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