It's wild the complicated planetary systems that exist. Closest star Alpha Centauri has a bunch of stars (well, 3) and likely planets orbiting around at least 2 of those stars. COOL.
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-135
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03814
(Lead author Chas Beichman is a lovely human and was the first person who hired me as an undergrad research assistant at JPL, a very long time ago).
Prof. Sam Lawler
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