In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Two's company, three's a crowd?
The existence of a circumtriple planet demonstrates that planets may form in any system, even in the most strange ways.
A Jupiter-sized world may be kicking up dust in the triple-star system GW Ori.
Astronomers may have just found the first ever evidence of a planet orbiting three stars at the same time.
Exoplanet researchers just found something that might be the first of its kind ever: a planet orbiting three stars.
UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.
In a distant star system — a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth — UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.
An international team of astronomers has released a new study explaining the unusual structure of the three-star system GW Orionis in the Orion galaxy.
GW Orionis, or GW Ori, is a triple star system located at the head of Orion the Hunter. A massive protoplanetary disk surrounds the triple star system.
As of yet, all that can be seen is a strange gap in the dust disk. But there are many indications that a planet has been discovered for the first time that orbits three stars at once.
GW Ori is a star system 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. But fascinatingly, it is a system with not one star, but three.
A Jupiter-sized world may be kicking up dust in the triple-star system GW Ori.