10-14-2021, 09:26 PM
(10-14-2021, 09:15 PM)Spook of the lost Wrote: Kyng the star system from Battlestar Galactica and the Star system from firefly are great examples of multi-star multi-planet systems with lots of inhabited, mostly terraformed, worlds.
but we've really not seen anything like them in nature, mostly because such complex systems would have to be rare due to the natural instability of such star systems.
I think we found a quintuple star system with planets a while back though?
a great example of a quandrinary system with planets is PH-1 also known as Kepler 64.
it's a double circumbinary system where two binary star pairs are orbiting each other.
and around at least one of those binary pairs is a neptune sized gas giant.
http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/pl...ab%29%20b/
it's about 6.3 earth radii or about half as big as jupiter.
plus on top of that all 4 of the stars are small enough to have long lifetimes with large permanent habitable zones that are ideal if other more rocky planets are found.
Well, I guess that makes it even odder that we haven't found a triple-star planet until now !
As for quintuple star systems, I haven't found one with planets, although when I was searching, I did find this one. It's quite similar to the quadruple system you were talking about: it has two pairs of stars orbiting each other, then a fifth star just hanging out on its own . No evidence of planets there at the moment - although they did note that there's no reason why it couldn't have them, so I'd be interested to see if any evidence of them is found one day!!!
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