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