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Massive Exoplanet Evolved In Extreme 4-Star System
astroengine writes "For only the second time, an exoplanet living with an expansive family of four stars has been revealed. The exoplanet, which is a huge gaseous world 10 times the mass of Jupiter, was previously known to occupy a 3-star system, but a fourth star (a red dwarf) has now been found, revealing quadruple star systems possessing planets are more common than we thought. "About four percent of solar-type stars are in quadruple systems, which is up from previous estimates because observational techniques are steadily improving," said co-author Andrei Tokovinin of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The whole 4-star family is collectively known as 30 Ari, located some 136 light-years from Earth — in our interstellar backyard. The exoplanet orbits the primary star of the system once every 335 days. The primary star has a new-found binary partner (which the exoplanet does not orbit) and this pair are locked in an orbital dance with a secondary binary, separated by a distance of 1,670 astronomical unit (AU), where 1 AU is the average distance between the Earth and sun.
lauch missiles at them until they are all destroyed
then finish it with bombarding the moon and then
throwing everything we have at the sun.
the aliens must not be allowed to survive.
Where I come from, a solar system is defined as the union of one sun and a few planets.
We don't go in for that kinky multi-stellar shit.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.