Science Cartoon based on discovery of Planet orbiting three stars
It is too weirder. Something which is unbelievable but existing. Researchers have spotted a planet orbiting three stars with a distance twice as far as Pluto is from our own sun. As the report published online in Science magazine, the data suggest that HD131399Ab is the widest ranging exoplanet in a multistar system.
A team of astronomers have used the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope to image the first planet ever found in a wide orbit inside a triple-star system. The orbit of such a planet had been expected to be unstable, probably resulting in the planet being quickly ejected from the system. But somehow this one survives. This unexpected observation suggests that such systems may actually be more common than previously thought.
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Reference: Wagner et al, (2016), Direct imaging discovery of a Jovian exoplanet within a triple-star system, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf9671
