We Found a Planet That Orbits Three Stars..Maybe?
New simulations of a triple-star system in the constellation Orion suggest that a planet might be orbiting three stars, which could drastically increase the amount of the solar systems we believe are out there forming planets! And the winds of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appear to speeding up, which could tell us more about what’s happening deep beneath the planet’s clouds! Hosted By: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet & Jason A Saslow! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/science/triple-sun-planet.html https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/508/1/392/6371904?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09776.pdf https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2014/ https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aba4633 https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/about-alma/how-alma-works/how-does-alma-see/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0414 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-shows-winds-in-jupiters-great-red-spot-are-speeding-up https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL093982 https://www.space.com/jupiter-great-red-spot.html https://www.britannica.com/place/Great-Red-Spot https://hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/the-telescope Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_system_Painting.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_Head_to_Toe.jpg https://alma-telescope.jp/en/news/press/gwori-202009 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ALMA_and_the_centre_of_the_Milky_Way.jpg https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2014c/ https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2014/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2014b/ https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2014d/ https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200929.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist’s_impression_of_the_double-star_system_GG_Tauri-A.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jupiter’s_Colourful_Palette.tif https://www.nasa.gov/content/jupiters-great-red-spot-viewed-by-voyager-i https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/jupiters-great-red-spot-getting-taller-as-it-shrinks https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/jupiters-great-red-spot-getting-taller-as-it-shrinks https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_-a.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-shows-winds-in-jupiters-great-red-spot-are-speeding-up https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-new-portrait-of-jupiter