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Chinese astronomers find real three-body system. It is not what Liu Cixin thinks

· By Ling Xin
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In author and computer engineer Liu Cixin’s science fiction hit The Three-Body Problem, three suns throw a doomed world into chaos. Chinese astronomers say they have found a real three-star system that is far better behaved. Using FAST, the world’s biggest single-dish radio telescope in southwestern China, the resea…

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