SciShow: How Many Suns Can One Planet Have?

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Content of the Lesson: Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Earth and the other seven planets in our solar system have only one star: the Sun. Years ago, astronomers found the first exoplanet that had two stars. They also found one with three stars. And four. Just how many stars can one planet have? Hosted by: Savannah Geary ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: Sources: ttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01948-4 https://universe.nasa.gov/stars/multiple-star-systems/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.06851.pdf https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/planet-reared-by-four-parent-stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/768/2/127 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.07065.pdf https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1672/discovery-alert-first-six-star-system-where-all-six-stars-undergo-eclipses/ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abddb5/pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327730665_Stability_of_planets_in_triple_star_systems/download https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/alpha-centauri-a-triple-star-system-about-4-light-years-from-earth.html https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19106#Sec2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-021-03959-x https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/166 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/483/3/3465/5237726 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2005/16/aa0238-04.pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab64fa/pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.2000 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09776.pdf https://phys.org/news/2023-05-astrophysicists-planet-hosting-three-star.html https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac9302 https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10794 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10794.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03449 https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05188 Images: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1624c/ https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/31/3762-Image.html?news=true https://www.gettyimages.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTMKsQ63Bl8&ab_channel=NASAVideo https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01948-4 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist_concept_of_JWST_(50489833002_107cb9e661_o).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_planet_in_the_HD_131399_system.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HD188753_orbit.jpg https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2014c/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha,_Beta_and_Proxima_Centauri_(1).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_fly-through_of_the_Alpha_Centauri_system.ogv https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha_Centauri_relative_sizes.svg https://www.eso.org/public/blog/a-long-time-ago/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/four-suns-of-hd-98800/ https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/1032/kepler-launch-and-deployment-complete/ https://science.nasa.gov/resource/transit-light-curve/ https://universe.nasa.gov/resources/149/binary-system/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Infographic_depicting_the_sextuple_star_system_Castor,_and_details_about_its_components.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/background-of-galaxy-and-stars-royalty-free-image/1035676256?phrase=stars+space&adppopup=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KeplerSpaceTelescope_-Retirement-ArtistConcept-20181030.jpg https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1672/discovery-alert-first-six-star-system-where-all-six-stars-undergo-eclipses/ https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1362/a-surprising-planet-with-three-suns/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Full_Sunburst_over_Earth.JPG https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/illustration-of-an-earth-sized-tatooine-planet/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-kepler-discovery-confirms-first-planet-orbiting-two-stars https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circumbinary_Star_System_illustration.jpg


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