Science
Cool: Six-star system found. Cooler: Made of three binaries. Coolest: *Eclipsing* binaries. – SYFY WIRE
This deserves a “whoa”: Astronomers have found a sextuple (six-) star system where, if you watch it for a few days, every star in it will at some point undergo…
This deserves a “whoa”: Astronomers have found a sextuple (six-) star system where, if you watch it for a few days, every star in it will at some point undergo an eclipse.
Whoa.
Multiple stars are just intrinsically cool: Unlike our Sun, sailing alone through space, multiples are where two or more stars orbit each other in a stable, gravitationally bound system. Half the stars in the galaxy are in multiple systems like that. Most are binaries (two stars orbiting each other) and some in trinaries…
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