In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Science Daily

An international team of astronomers recently observed more than 1,650 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected from one source in deep space, which amounts to the largest set -- by far -- of the mysterious phenomena ever recorded.

Mirage News

An international team of astronomers recently observed more than 1,650 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected from one source in deep space, which amounts to the largest set – by far – of the mysterious phenomena ever recorded.

EurekAlert!

A flurry of more than 1,650 FRBs detected by FAST telescope over 47 days in 2019 unlocks clues to the nature and location of the powerful millisecond-long cosmic radio explosions.

Universe Today

Astronomers may have spotted the first ever known planet orbiting not one, not two, but three stars.

KSNV-TV: News 3

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researchers say they’ve made a discovery 13-hundred light-years from Earth that could possibly be the first planet to orbit three stars.

New Atlas

One Sun is plenty for our solar system, but some planets have been found orbiting two stars at once. Now the ante has been upped again, with evidence emerging of a planet orbiting three stars at once.

Space.com

Star clusters are not only beautiful to look at through telescopes, but they're also the key to unlocking the mysteries of how a star is born.

New Scientist

Astronomers have found clues to a large planet orbiting three stars.

CNET

It's like a Tatooine supreme.

CNN Indonesia

Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ) in the United States said they had discovered an exoplanet orbiting three suns, also known as the 3rd Binary Star (Trinari).

Forbes

Planets orbit stars. Everyone knows that, but have you ever heard of a planet that orbits not two stars, but three?

Nerdist

In 1949 a team of astronomers discovered a star 1,300 light-years from Earth, at the head of Orion the Hunter. Since then, astronomers have found that the star—GW Orionis—has two stellar companions.