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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlanet with four suns discovered
The distant world orbits one pair of stars and has a second stellar pair revolving around it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923
Exoplanets just keep getting cooler.
ZM90
(706 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Rambis
(7,774 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)nt
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Just as with Earth, if there is life on Earth, the universe must be teeming with life. K&R
murielm99
(30,741 posts)Asimov's story "Nightfall" had six suns. I am sure that many people here have read the story.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)brooklynite
(94,572 posts)The density required for a sun to undergo nuclear fusion would have to be pretty big; you wouldn't think the gravitation of a planet could hold on.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)The planet is apparently orbiting two suns that are orbiting each other and then two more suns are orbiting the whole works.
DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)The article is badly phrased.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)Compare that with Pluto - 30 to 49 AU from the Sun. At that distance, any sun would look more like a planet does to us, I'd think.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)I assume the orbit of a planet around binary stars has to be pretty darn distant to be stable enough for the planet to have survived.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)It should read "Planet found in 4-star System"