Two Stars, Three Planets (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Two Stars, Three Planets

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This is an illustration of this highly unusual system, which features the smallest-separation binary stars that both host planets ever discovered. Only six other metal-poor binary star systems with exoplanets have ever been found.

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Illustration is courtesy of Timothy Rodigas.

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