Four Suns Lined Up In The Norway Sky. Seriously.

Norwegian residents noticed four suns at once this week. The phenomenon of “false suns” called “parhelia” is somewhat common, but the observed number of “false suns” is usually two.

Witness the breathtaking spectacle as residents of Norway are amazed by the rare sight of four suns illuminating the sky simultaneously. Explore the phenomenon of ‘false suns’ known as ‘parhelia’, typically uncommon but striking in its occurrence.

A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, also called a parhelion in meteorology, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Two sun dogs often flank the Sun within a 22° halo.

To a hypothetical observer cruising through the giant planet’s atmosphere, the sky would appear to host one small sun and two bright stars visible in daylight. With a large enough telescope, one of the bright stars could be resolved into a binary pair creating four suns.

How would it look to have four suns in the sky? Planets of the HD 98800 system, if they exist, would experience such a view. HD 98800 is a multiple star system about 150 light years from Earth – right in our section of the Milky Way Galaxy. For years it has been known that HD 98800 consists of two pairs of double stars, with one pair surrounded by a disk of dust. Recent data from the Earth-trailing Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light indicate that the dust disk has gaps that appear consistent with being cleared by planets orbiting in the disk. If so, one planet appears to be orbiting at a distance similar to Mars of our own Solar System producing four suns.

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