In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
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.
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.
Astronomers may have spotted the first ever known planet orbiting not one, not two, but three stars.
UNLV researchers say they’ve made a discovery 13-hundred light-years from Earth that could possibly be the first planet to orbit three stars.
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.
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.
Astronomers have found clues to a large planet orbiting three stars.
It's like a Tatooine supreme.
Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in the United States said they had discovered an exoplanet orbiting three suns, also known as the 3rd Binary Star (Trinari).
In a distant star system — a mere 1,300 light-years away from Earth — researchers may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars. The potential discovery of a circumtriple planet has implications for bolstering understanding of planet formation.
Although our solar system has only one star in the center, half of the systems contain two or even more stars that orbit each other by gravity. But so far, no one has seen a planet orbiting the three stars.
Planets orbit stars. Everyone knows that, but have you ever heard of a planet that orbits not two stars, but three?