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  • Planet with triple-star system found

    04/01/2016 1:19:58 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    phys.org ^ | 04-01-2016 | Bob Yirka & Astronomical Journal
    This artist's concept of HD 1885 Ab, the first known planet to reside in a triple-star system, would have a similar sunset to KELT-4Ab. Both systems host a pair of stars distantly orbiting the planet-hosting single sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ===================================================================================================================== A team of researchers working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced the finding of a triple-star system—one that also as has a stable orbit planet in it. In their paper published in The Astronomical Journal, the team describes how they came to see that a binary system once thought to be a single star, was actually a pair...