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Brian Aldiss referenced a similar kind of system in his Helliconia science fiction trilogy, where a planet orbited a small sun, which in turn orbited a much larger sun in a much longer orbit.

Ironically, truth turns out to be stranger than fiction, seeing as this two binary systems are involved.




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