But GW Orionis, a young, planet-forming system just 1,300 light-years away, has multiple protoplanetary rings orbiting a triple star system.
A new study shows there must be planets in between those rings, making these the first planets discovered orbiting all three stars in a trinary system.
Scientists discover planet orbiting three stars 'like Tattooine' could be hiding an even bigger
Astronomers have discovered a planet 1,300 light years from Earth that is bizarrely orbiting three stars , rather than just one.
The strange celestial object, GW Ori, also has a disc split in two at a strange 38-degree angle – as if the rings of Saturn were broken in the middle and tilted askew.
Exoplanets: First hints of a planet orbiting three stars at once | New Scientist
Most of the planets astronomers have found orbit only one star – a few orbit two, but so far we've never spotted an exoplanet that orbits three stars simultaneously. Now, researchers have spotted hints of a young world with three host stars.
These hints come from a stellar system called GW Orionis, which consists of two stars orbiting one another at about the same distance that Earth sits from the sun, and a third circling those two about eight times further …
Astronomers May Have Just Discovered A Planet Orbiting Three Stars - Science
Early last year, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) astronomers found an intriguing star system.
Near the Orion constellation, some 1,300 light-years away from Earth, is the budding star system, GW Ori. At its centre lies not one, but three young stars.
Silly system: Orion is a big planet orbiting three suns
The so-called three-body problem has caused a headache to many mathematicians. The goal here is to find a solution to the trajectory of the three bodies that affect each other in space through their gravity. This indicates that the stable system constellation of three stars is rather rare.
This may be the first planet found orbiting 3 stars at once - Space Bollyinside
“It may be the first evidence of a circumtriple planet carving a gap in real time,” said Jeremy Smallwood from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, lead author of the new paper. William Welsh, an astronomer at San Diego State University, said the researchers “make a good case.
SpaceX Dragon cargo ship heads for Earth packed with gravity-sensitive experiments | Space
SpaceX's Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station packed full of science experiments after one month at the orbiting laboratory.
The capsule, carrying 4,600 lbs. (2,900 kilograms) of material to return to Earth, undocked at 9:12 a.m. EDT (1312 GMT) on Thursday (Sept. 30) while the station was travelling over the Pacific Ocean.
Russian film crew set to launch to International Space Station next week | Space
Director Klim Shipenko, actor Yulia Peresild and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov are scheduled to launch toward the orbiting lab aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft next Tuesday (Oct. 5). The trio will lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan just before 5 a.m.
Once they get to the station, Shipenko and Peresild will film part of a movie called " Challenge ," which is a joint production of the Moscow-based film studio Yellow, Black and White, Russia's Channel One and Roscosmos, the nation's federal space agency.
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