Astronomers have identified a cosmic oddity: What may be the first planet ever discovered that orbits three stars.
In the image below, you can see the dust rings around the triple star system which gave astronomers a clue that there may be a planet orbiting there. There is a noticeable gap in the dust ring, which suggests the presence of a massive planet.
Researchers believe they’ve discovered a planet orbiting three stars at the same time | CTV
ALMA images of the planet-forming disk with misaligned rings around triple star system GW Orionis. The image on the right is made with ALMA data taken in 2017 from Bi et al. The image on the left is made with ALMA data taken in 2018 from Kraus et al. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Kraus & J.
An Exoplanet Orbiting 3 Stars Has Been Discovered--But How Did They Actually Find It? | Tech Times
This may be the first planet found orbiting 3 stars at once | The Seattle Times
GW Ori is a star system 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. It is surrounded by a huge disk of dust and gas, a common feature of young star systems that are forming planets. But fascinatingly, it is a system with not one star, but three.
As if that were not intriguing enough, GW Ori's disk is split in two, almost like Saturn's rings if they had a massive gap in between. And to make it even more bizarre, the outer ring is tilted at about 38 degrees.
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T o call Hugo Vickers a "royal correspondent" would be like calling Ernest Hemingway a war correspondent. Mr. Vickers is the doyen of a particular kind of biography.
In 1979 the author's editor at Weidenfeld & Nicolson told him that Beaton was looking for a biographer and that he had read Mr. Vickers's first book, "Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough.
First evidence found of one planet orbiting three stars at once | TweakTown
A team of astronomers has identified a mystery that is yet to be solved, and it specifically has to do with a star system located in the constellation of Orion.
According to a press release from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals evidence that a star system titled GW Ori, located 1,300 light-years from Earth, has a disk that is divided into two.
The Europe-Japan mission to Mercury sends back photos of the planet's cratered surface - The Verge
Photos from a fly-by of Mercury, the least-explored planet in our solar system, show ithas a crater-riddled surface that resembles Earth's Moon.
BepiColombo aims to gather more information about Mercury and its composition, and how it evolved so close to our Sun. Temperatures on Mercury can exceed 350 degrees Celsius, or about 660 degrees Fahrenheit.
Space Forge: orbiting factory will make products that are out of this world | News | The Times
An autonomous space factory that harnesses the lack of gravity to create high-performance products impossible to produce on Earth is under development with British government funding.
Space Forge will launch its robotic ForgeStar Orbital Vehicle — the size of an oven — into outer space so that it can create semiconductors, alloys and pharmaceuticals in optimum conditions without the need for humans before returning to Earth.
An orbiting satellite spies another satellite that is launched into orbit - Space Bollyinside
The first Landsat satellite launched in 1972.
Cardinals win vs. Rams, undefeated record proves beauty of NFL anomalies - Sports Illustrated
There are beautiful parts of every season where nothing on paper makes sense. At the moment, the Cardinals remain the lone undefeated team in the NFC and, depending on the Raiders’ performance on Monday Night Football, the entire NFL, is one of those incredible anomalies.
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