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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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Roll me up and throw me on the pile until the next epoch.

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Dehydrate!

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Hydrate me when the next stable era comes along.

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