In The News: College of Sciences

“Star Wars” showed us a planet with two suns in the sky. Now a 51ԹϺ researcher and an international team are doing one better: They may have identified the first planet orbiting around three stars.

A discovery was recently made by 51ԹϺ astronomers 1,300 light years away from earth.

Forget about one or two sunsets — three might be possible in this solar system.
Two's company, three's a crowd?
The existence of a circumtriple planet demonstrates that planets may form in any system, even in the most strange ways.
A Jupiter-sized world may be kicking up dust in the triple-star system GW Ori.

Zooming to the future.
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 65 graduate students representing 29 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2021 Solicitation 1 cycle.
Astronomers may have just found the first ever evidence of a planet orbiting three stars at the same time.
Exoplanet researchers just found something that might be the first of its kind ever: a planet orbiting three stars.
51ԹϺ researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.
In a distant star system — a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth — 51ԹϺ researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars.