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> a planet that has four suns I remembered five; Wikipedia says six, two of which form a binary star system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_no
by Someone 4y ago
> a planet that has four suns
I remembered five; Wikipedia says six, two of which form a binary star system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel)#Plot_summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_an...)
I also remember reading that such a system can exist, but can’t find a reference. It’s probably not that surprising, though, given that the proposed system has one large star and five minor ones, making it similar to a system with one star and five giant planets. Putting a planet in in such a way that it only has a night every 2000 years may be the only tricky part (giving it a much smaller orbit than the minor stars would help avoiding nights, but giving it a single moon that can cause nights once every 2000 years?)