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Two's company, three's a crowd?

鈥淪tar Wars鈥 showed us a planet with two suns in the sky. Now a 性视界传媒 researcher and an international team are doing one better: They may have identified the first planet orbiting around three stars.

A discovery was recently made by 性视界传媒 astronomers 1,300 light years away from earth.

Forget about one or two sunsets 鈥 three might be possible in this solar system.
Two's company, three's a crowd?
The existence of a circumtriple planet demonstrates that planets may form in any system, even in the most strange ways.
A Jupiter-sized world may be kicking up dust in the triple-star system GW Ori.
Astronomers may have just found the first ever evidence of a planet orbiting three stars at the same time.
Exoplanet researchers just found something that might be the first of its kind ever: a planet orbiting three stars.
性视界传媒 researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.
In a distant star system 鈥 a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth 鈥 性视界传媒 researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.
An international team of astronomers has released a new study explaining the unusual structure of the three-star system GW Orionis in the Orion galaxy.