Could life develop in this ternary sytem?

Here is a link to an online animation of stars' movements in a trinary system.

Basically, the three stars are orbiting around a barycenter; one (yellow in the animation, mass = 1) closer to it and the other two (red and blue; mass = 0.25) orbiting around each other as well.

How far apart would the planets and stars have to be for there to be a stable orbit in a habitable zone around either the yellow star or in a circumbinary orbit around the red and blue stars?

The mass of the yellow star can vary as needed, as long as it is roughly 4 times the mass of red and blue as in the animation.

posted over 7 years ago

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