Exoplanet in a triple star system smack dab in the habitable zone

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Feb 7, 2012 6:00 PMNov 20, 2019 2:58 AM

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In the race to find the weirdest planet orbiting another star, we may have a front runner: GJ 667Cc, a super-Earth orbiting one star in a triple system that's actually relatively closeby. And oh yeah: it just so happens to be in just the right spot to be potentially inhabitable! Of course, I have some caveats, so don't get too excited. But this is a weird and pretty cool one!

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