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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 couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even though stars come in singlets, binaries, trinaries, and even greater numbers of multi-star systems, we’d only ever found stars orbiting one — or, at most, two — stars.

I think they mean planets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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.