Planets with Four Parents? Spitzer Finds Evidence for Strange Stellar Family
HD 98800 is a quadruple star system where two tight pairs of stars orbit each other at slightly further than the average distance of Pluto. One of the pairs have two belts of dust around it at approximate distances of 1.5-2 AU and 5.9 AU.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
-- Richard Feynman
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