{"id":145618,"date":"2022-09-04T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/one-of-a-kind-massive-triple-star-system-detected"},"modified":"2022-09-04T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:23:50","slug":"one-of-a-kind-massive-triple-star-system-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/one-of-a-kind-massive-triple-star-system-detected","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOne of a Kind\u201d Massive Triple Star System Detected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-of-a-kind-massive-triple-star-system-detected.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, researchers revealed the discovery of an extraordinarily compact \u201cone-of-a-kind\u201d system of three stars. A partnership between two young researchers at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/niels-bohr-institute\/>Niels Bohr Institute<\/a> at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-copenhagen\/>University of Copenhagen<\/a> is currently focusing on how this unusual combination of a binary set of stars and a revolving larger star can form.<\/p>\n<p>The star system is made up of a binary set of stars, two stars that orbit each other, and one more massive star that orbits the binary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as we know, it is the first of its kind ever detected\u201d, Alejandro Vigna-Gomez says. \u201cWe know of many tertiary star systems (three star systems), but they are typically significantly less massive. The massive stars in this triple are very close together \u2013 it is a compact system. The orbital period of the binary (~1 d) is the same as that of the rotation of Earth (1 day). The combined mass of the two of them is twelve times the mass of our Sun \u2013 so rather big stars. The tertiary star is approximately 16 times the mass of our Sun, so even bigger! The inner orbit is circular in shape with close to six revolutions of the tertiary star around the binary per year. Pretty fast, when you consider the size of them \u2013 unsurprisingly, the system is very luminous, so at first they were detected as a stellar binary\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, researchers revealed the discovery of an extraordinarily compact \u201cone-of-a-kind\u201d system of three stars. A partnership between two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen is currently focusing on how this unusual combination of a binary set of stars and a revolving larger star can form. The star [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}