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Illustration of a planet orbiting 3 stars at the center of the GW Ori star system.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—For the first time, astronomer from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas seems to have found planet the first to orbit three stars. The findings were published and attracted attention in the September publication Royal Astronomical Society by title ‘GW Head: circumtriple rings and planets’.
Planet it is in the star system GW Head which is about 1,300 light years from Earth and is in the constellation Orion. GW Head surrounded by a large disk of dust and gas, a common feature of the young star systems that make up the planet. But interestingly, this is a system with not one star, but three stars.
According to researchers, the findings planet This has important implications for strengthening our understanding of the formation of planet. This finding is also very interesting, because to date there are none planet known to orbit three stars.
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