I recently learned that more star systems than not are actually double stars. Completely floored me.
A tad bigger and Jupiter could have been ours :-)
“I recently learned that more star systems than not are actually double stars. Completely floored me”
Some decades ago it was estimated only about one in four solar systems had only one star, while three out of four solar systems were binary or multiple star systems. Our closest neighboring solar system, Centauri, includes Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri orbiting each other as a binary star system with a third star, Proxima Centauri, orbiting the binary pair.