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🗓️ 4 September 2020
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0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
0:20.0 | This is |
0:25.0 | a scientific American 60 second science. |
0:27.0 | I'm Christopher Intagata. |
0:29.0 | Our solar system is far from the only way to put together stars in their planets. |
0:34.0 | If you look at all the stars in our galaxy in the Milky Way, right? |
0:39.5 | More than a half of the stars are formed in multi poles, meaning that there are more than one star in a system. |
0:47.5 | Astrophysicist Jahan Bay of the Carnegie Institution for Science. |
0:51.5 | He has studied one of those systems with three stars. It's |
0:55.0 | called G. W. Orionis and it's freshly formed only a million years old. |
0:59.4 | Yeah, it's really, really young. Yeah, it's a baby. |
1:03.2 | BAY says if you translate that million year lifespan |
1:06.0 | to that of a human, it's the equivalent of a week-old baby. |
1:09.6 | And how many week-old babies do you bump into? |
1:12.3 | If you just walk around your neighborhood, |
1:14.6 | there's really little chance |
1:16.2 | that you meet a baby who is one week old, right? |
1:19.7 | So first of all, it's hard to find these systems they are pretty rare. |
1:24.6 | Bay and his colleagues got lucky spotting this one. |
1:27.2 | Using radio telescopes they were able to image the star system and they say it differs |
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