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Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings (bigthink.com)
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It was long thought that planets couldnโ€™t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

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[โ€“] kibiz0r@midwest.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even though stars come in singlets, binaries, trinaries, and even greater numbers of multi-star systems, weโ€™d only ever found stars orbiting one โ€” or, at most, two โ€” stars.

I think they mean planets.

[โ€“] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~~They mean stars. This is notable because it's the first planet found orbiting more than two stars.~~

Nevermind, that is written horribly. I think you're correct.