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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.
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The moment you read the description of the star system and its location. At least I did.
Who cares if it's another ball of gas. It's a REAL planet - not like Pluto. Besides this virtually proves that intelligent life exists in the universe and probably got transported here because SPACE! And also because when people have a choice between loving God with all their heart and loving their neighbor as themselves, they either turn muslin or believe in space stuff.
FUCK YOU ASSHOLES
Maybe this planet swallowed its neighboring planets over time when their orbits became unstable in such a complex system, hence it's so massive?
Could this in turn become another star once it has acquired enough mass to jump start nuclear fusion?
P.S. Feel free to RTFA me!
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.
Now we have a place to send all of our niggers.
Good riddance to bad rubbish! ROFLMAO!!
I wish writers wouldn't say "evolved" when they mean "formed" or perhaps "developed".
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.
>> where 1 AU is the average distance between the Earth and sun
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this is pretty wow to me!!
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
3 of the stars are just ignited gas giants. the actual gas giant just never made the cut or it'd be a 5 star system.
That looks a whole lot like a Brown Dwarf to me.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Actually, I was thinking of the scene in K-PAX where Kevin Spacey shows the astrophysicists how the celestial mechanics of his multi-stellar system worked.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
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Welcome to the exciting world of Trisolarium!
The "everything's getting worse every day" crowd needs to wake up and realize their rose-tinted nostalgia glasses need replacing.
"The exoplanet orbits the primary star of the system ... 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..."
Is there a graphical simulation of this? I would love to see this and the other possible planetary orbits that could occur in a multiple-star system.
I'm 2/3rds impressed. I'm still holding out for a six star, two planet system that serves Tano Sitha specials.
Regardless of where you're staying, it's all four star accommodations.