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Second known case of a planet in a quadruple star system discovered


the second known case of a planet in a quadruple star system

The newly discovered fourth star, whose distance from the planet is 23 times the Sun-Earth distance, does not appear to have impacted the orbit ...

Planet 'Reared' by Four Parent Stars - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Astronomers have discovered the second known case of a planet in a quadruple star system.

Second known case of a planet in a quadruple star system discovered

Quadruple star system. The newfound four-star planetary system, called 30 Ari, is located 136 light-years away in the constellation Aries. The ...

Planet in a Quadruple Star System | Centauri Dreams

The paper, which also reports the detection of a stellar companion to the exoplanet host system HD 2638, notes that 30 Ari is the second ...

Armchair astronomers find planet in quadruple star system - Phys.org

(Phys.org)—A joint effort of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has led to the first reported case of a planet orbiting twin ...

Scientists discover only the second planet to hang out near 4 stars

Scientists had previously identified the planet, but thought it was part of a three-star system. Only recently did astronomers discover a fourth star, a red ...

Distant planet has four suns | Science Wire - EarthSky

Astronomers have discovered the second known case of a planet residing in a quadruple star system – that is, a planet with four suns.

Kepler-64b: Four Star Planet - NASA Science

... reported case of a planet ... called a circumbinary planet in a four-star system ... Earth, a second pair of stars orbits the planetary system.

Circumbinary planet - Wikipedia

A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one. The two stars orbit each other in a binary system, while the planet typically orbits ...

Circumbinary planet in quadruple star system discovered

A joint effort of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has led to the first reported case of a planet orbiting twin suns that in ...

A Sky with Quadruple Suns | Drew Ex Machina

(JPL) about their discovery of red dwarf companions orbiting two different stars previously known to host extrasolar planets. With this ...

NASA's TESS Finds Almost 100 Quadruple Star Systems

In 2015 astronomers discovered a massive planet in the quadruple star system 30 Arietis. According to that discovery, the system is home to an ...

Astronomers Discover Bizarre Quadruple Star System

These stars form two binary pairs, one right in the middle of the system and one orbiting billions of miles away. In true astronomer fashion, ...

Physicists confirm first planet discovered in a quadruple star system

Crepp's images revealed that the system involved two sets of binary stars. The planet was first noticed by volunteer citizen scientists ...

A TRANSITING CIRCUMBINARY PLANET IN A QUADRUPLE STAR ...

PLANET HUNTERS: A TRANSITING CIRCUMBINARY PLANET IN A QUADRUPLE STAR SYSTEM, Megan E. Schwamb, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter, William F. Welsh, Debra A.

Planet discovered orbiting the second closest stellar system to the ...

An international team of astronomers has found a candidate planet in orbit around Barnard's star, the closest single star to the sun and second ...

A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System - arXiv

Outside the planet's orbit, at ~1000 AU,a previously unknown visual binary has been identified that is likely bound to the planetary system, ...

Volunteer Scientists Aid in Discovery of Four-Star Planet PH1

A team of international astronomers, aided by volunteer scientists using the Planethunters.org website, discovered a circumbinary planet in ...

The newly discovered Star Wars-like planet with four suns | The Week

"Scarcely a year ago, astronomers weren't sure if planets could exist in binary star systems, where two stars orbit one another," says Mann.

Exoplanet - Wikipedia

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not then ...