What star has the greatest number of known planets to orbit it?
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Last updated Sep 10 2021.
Originally posted Sep 09 2021 9:42 PM.
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There are actually two - one of them is Sol, our sun. Even after the downgrade of Pluto to a dwarf planet in 2006, it is on top of the list with eight known planets. The only other star to have eight confirmed planets is Kepler-90, a G-type star located about 2,840 light-years (870 pc) from Earth in the constellation Draco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiplanetary_systems