- cross-posted to:
- jingszo@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- jingszo@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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Oh no. The trisolarians are coming!
Roll me up and throw me on the pile until the next epoch.
Dehydrate!
Hydrate me when the next stable era comes along.
Can I please go and live in that system, I don’t like it here anymore
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.
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
this new is 3 years old from what I can see
