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Planet under three stars

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uchiha | 16:09 Mon 10th Oct 2005 | Science
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okay... so maybe this is a little bit late for a July article... I saw an article (dated July 14,2005) About a planet under three suns (red, orange and yellow if I'm not mistaken). Is there any truth to this?  
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You can google - july 14 article three suns - and take your pic. Or you can read about it here.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050716/fob8.asp
Yes very common, in fact our own system of a single star is less common than double or multiple star systems and it follows that there will be alot of such systems with planets. This particular case was brought to attention because a gas giant was discovered orbiting one of the stars.

Imagine Mercury and Venus were 10,000 times heavier, their cores might get squashed into nuclear fusion and we would all have three shadows in the daytime. A lot of planets much larger than Jupiter have been found in short orbits near their stars, so it's not unexpected that some of these would be stars in their own right.

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