Researchers find that bright nearby double star Fomalhaut is actually a triple
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —The nearby star system Fomalhaut – of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk – has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had thought, but one of the widest triple stars known.