wait what??

This particular region of the universe has absolutely baffled astronomers.  You may or may not have heard the term “binary star system”.  If not, it is basically like it sounds, where two stars are rotating in proximity and around the same center.  However, this is extremely strange and awesome:

A team of researchers working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced the finding of a triple-star system—one that also as has a stable orbit planet in it. In their paper published in The Astronomical Journal, the team describes how they came to see that a binary system once thought to be a single star, was actually a pair of stars orbiting one another, and how that led to the revelation of the triple-star system.

Would you have ever guessed that they would find something like this?

And you did read this post correctly.  It is a planet.

The star system was known before as mentioned and let’s find out more about it on page 2

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