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Does anyone know if exoplanets can find a stable orbit around binary stars? I read recently that 50-80% of stars are multi-star systems. It seems like it'd be h

Does anyone know if exoplanets can find a stable orbit around binary stars? I read recently that 50-80% of stars are multi-star systems. It seems like it'd be hard for planets even to form with such a varying magnetic field.

Martimus 14y ago
Yes, actually, and some have recently been found. http://phys.org/news/2013-03-capture-picture-tatooine-planet-orbiting.html http://phys.org/news/2013-03-capture-picture-tatooine-planet...
svachalek 14y ago
Note that there are two ways for this to happen (orbiting one of the stars, or both) and both have been discovered.