It was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

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    16 days ago

    Even though stars come in singlets, binaries, trinaries, and even greater numbers of multi-star systems, we’d only ever found stars orbiting one — or, at most, two — stars.

    I think they mean planets.

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      16 days ago

      They mean stars. This is notable because it’s the first planet found orbiting more than two stars.

      Nevermind, that is written horribly. I think you’re correct.