Astronomers discover 16-million-year-old planet with 3 suns
Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers were able to make a Very Large Discovery: A 16-million-year-old planet with three suns, 320 light years away from Earth.
The planet was discovered a year ago, and researchers have only been able to study a tiny bit of its elliptical orbit. It's one of the youngest exoplanets scientists know of, and it's possible it has moons. "It has quite high temperatures, no liquid water, extremely powerful winds, and no surface; just below the uppermost layer of the atmosphere it rains liquid iron droplets," Daniel Apai of the University of Arizona, a co-author of the study, told USA Today. "Earth-like life — life as we know it — would be extremely unlikely, if not impossible, to exist in this atmosphere."
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