Circumtriple Planets, Deep Convos with Strangers, Thomassons in Architecture
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🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Learn about a planet orbiting three stars at once; useless architectural relics; and deep conversations with strangers.
We found a planet orbiting three stars at once by Briana Brownell
- This May Be the First Planet Found Orbiting 3 Stars at Once. (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/science/triple-sun-planet.html
- Siegel, E. (2021, September 30). Planet found orbiting three stars all at once. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/planet-orbiting-3-stars/
- Scientists may have found the first known planet to orbit three stars. (2021). Science.org. https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-may-have-found-first-known-planet-orbit-three-stars
- Smallwood, J. L., Nealon, R., Chen, C., Martin, R. G., Bi, J., Dong, R., & Pinte, C. (2021). GW Ori: circumtriple rings and planets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(1), 392–407. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2624
Thomassons Are Functionally Useless Architectural Relics by Anna Todd
- Trufelman, A. (2014, August 26). Thomassons - 99% Invisible. 99% Invisible. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thomassons/
- Thomassons: Those Peculiar Architectural Relics That Serve No Purpose | 6sqft. (2014, August 28). 6sqft. https://www.6sqft.com/thomassons-those-peculiar-architectural-relics-that-serve-no-purpose/
Everything we assume about deep conversations with strangers is wrong by Cameron Duke
- Getting beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers. (2021, September 30). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/929731
- Kardas, M., Kumar, A., & Epley, N. (2021). Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000281
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Cody Gough, and I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about a planet we found that's orbiting three stars, |
| 0:11.6 | functionally useless architectural relics called Thomassons, and why everything |
| 0:16.4 | we assume about deep conversations with strangers is wrong. |
| 0:20.3 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:27.0 | The universe is full of strange, almost unimaginable things. And scientists have just found another new one, |
| 0:31.0 | a planet that orbits three stars at the same time. Now, scientists have found |
| 0:37.2 | planets orbiting stars in other three star or trinary systems. Our nearest neighbor, the Alpha Centauri system, is a trinary system. |
| 0:46.0 | But the planets we've found there orbit just one star, the small red dwarf Proximus |
| 0:52.0 | Centari. |
| 0:53.0 | That star orbits the two other stars in the system much farther away. |
| 0:58.0 | But this new system is the first so-called Circum triple System that we've found. |
| 1:03.2 | It's called G. W. Ory, and it's 1300 light years away in the constellation of Orion. |
| 1:09.0 | G. W. Ory has a bunch of other strange qualities too. |
| 1:13.6 | Two of the three stars closely orbit each other at about the distance between the Earth and |
| 1:17.7 | the Sun. |
| 1:19.0 | The third star orbits those two stars eight times farther away, at a little less than the distance |
| 1:24.0 | between the sun and Saturn. Around the three stars are three giant rings of |
| 1:29.2 | dust and they're each tilted at odd angles to each other. |
| 1:33.0 | Between the first and second rings is a large gap. |
| 1:37.0 | Scientists had already proposed a few different theories about what could have caused it. |
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