#thisisastronomical

The idea of more than one sun setting below the horizon might seem like something straight out of science fiction.

But it’s not.

In fact recent evidence suggest that multiple star systems, with 2 or more stars orbiting one another, are more common than singular star systems like our sun.
Which are all alone.

We’ve even discovered multiple star systems that contain as many as 6 stars!
Granted they certainly wouldn’t look exactly as they would in this picture and life would find it very hard to survive on the surface of a planet nearby orbiting.

But the fact that there are solar systems out there where the planets could have views similar to this, is very exciting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5ntmkPy2A
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