Tatooine-like Planet Discovered
ATP writes “CNN is reporting that a planet has been discovered in a solar system with 3 suns. The observation brings into doubt the theory stating that planets form from the dust orbiting around a single sun. The discovery also resulted in a new method of searching for extrasolar planets — until now most searching focused only on single-sun systems.”
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Tags: extrasolar, Planet, Science, Solar, Space, System, tatooine, triple
December 13th, 2005 at 21:50
Duh, people! Single stars, double stars, triples . . . its about time we all got used to the fact that there are probably A LOT more “planets” in our galaxy than stars . . . and they are likely to be everywhere.
One of these days the big search will be for at least one star with no satellites.