A planet with 3 suns

July 28th, 2005 by gaurav | Filed under .

A planet with 3 sunsAstronomers have detected a planet outside our solar system with not one, but three suns, a finding that challenges astronomers’ theories of planetary formation.

The planet, a gas giant slightly larger than Jupiter, orbits the main star of a triple-star system known as HD 188753 in the constellation Cygnus.

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3 Responses to “A planet with 3 suns”

  1. DesiPundit » Too much daylight | 3/08/05

    [...] much daylight Posted in Science at 8:12 pm by Patrix Gaurav Gombhar points us to a planet with 3 suns. Imagine all the poetry for seeing the sunset thrice a day. Permalin [...]

  2. Ankur | 3/08/05

    interesting

  3. @mit | 4/08/05

    Won’t that be interesting…..

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