How many "suns" in a galaxy?

Question

I've heard of binary solar systems where the galaxy contains two suns, but is it possible, do you think, for a galaxy to hold three or more suns where, if you were standing on one of it's planets you would be aware of three primary sources of light and/or heat?

I mean can there be 3 suns with planets orbitting them!

Answer 1

I think you're confusing "galaxy" with solar system.
A solar system can have 1, 2, 3, 4 and even 5 stars orbiting together. And any system could have planets. The most common configuration we have found in our neighbourhood is binary systems (2 stars orbiting a common centre of gravity). But there are triple and quadruple systems nearby as well. But they have found that multiple star systems seem to have a pattern - triple systems have one star orbiting a close binary. Quad systems have 2 close binaries at distant orbits from each binary, etc.
Whether you could see all the stars in the system would depend on how far apart the stars were, and whether your planet was orbiting one of them or orbiting 2 close binaries.
2 stars close to each other could have a planet orbiting the pair.

Answer 2

Truthfully I have seen binary solar systems like you stated in youre question on documantary's on national geographic and stuff like that. Many of them stated that a binary galaxy was doomed to failure because the suns actually orbited each other and ever so many million years another planet was destroyed, but truthfully a tri would just be radical especiall if they were different sizes. I truthfully dont think any such thing has been found or ever really will be found but a quad is supposedly a common system while the others are very much so irregular which is hard enough to believe, yeah thats right our solar system is far from "normal" a single star solar system is actually on the rarer side of things in our universe. I hope that helped if ya got any more questions message me.

Answer 3

Are you talking Solar systems, or Galaxy's?
A solar systen would have a bery bad day if it had two suns, take the gravity that holds the earth in orbit around the, if we had two suns the orbit of the earth would be thrown out of wack on the first orbit by two suns trying to hold the earth in orbit.
Then you have Galaxy's, they can contain a mullion solar systems, and eash star is a sun, and it has been seed that there are more stars in the hevans, than there are grains of sand on the earth.
I hope this helps you out.

Answer 4

I think the problem with binary star systems is that it's hard for a planet to remain stable under the gravitational pull of both stars. So it's rare that a planet is found in a binary star system. Therefore, I think it would be even more rare for a planet to be found in a triple star system.
However, it is very possible for there to be triple star systems, usually consisting of a main binary system with a distant companion.
In this vein, systems with up to six stars are known.

Answer 5

Anything is possible when you consider the number of stars that exist in a galaxy but the chances of three stars in close proximity would be very low. Stars are created from great clouds of hydrogen gas, these clouds are light years in diameter consequently stars are usually spaced light years apart. One planet may orbit one of three stars that are unusually close but I doubt that all three stars would supply heat and light to that one planet.

Answer 6

I think you mean Solar system. In which case , i think they have found 4 or 5 star systems. If you mean galaxy then there are billions of stars in our galaxy.

Answer 7

Since suns are stars, in the words of the late Carl Sagen, there are "billions and billions" of stars in a galaxy.

Answer 8

The solar system is only part of a galaxy.

Answer 9

well there are millions no 1 person could count them all i am a sceince geek and i would love to help with any more ??'s so email me at [e-mail]

Answer 10

i think the right question is how many stars...
coz sun is a star too...