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[โ€“] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We living in a binary star system that I didn't know about?

[โ€“] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess it's possible, there is a hypothesis that the solar system has a second faint red or brown dwarf star orbiting in the furthest outskirts of the solar system. I'm not sure I buy this hypothesis though, there is so little evidence. And it would be one of the more strange binary systems out there (binary stars are usually close together).