“Against All Odds” –NASA’s Planet-Hunting Tess Discovers a Unique Star System with Six “Suns” (Weekend Feature – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel

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“The system exists against the odds,” said Brian Powell, a data scientist at NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center about the source of starlight that was mysteriously brightening and dimming some 1,900 light-years away. The source, named TIC 168789840, is a system of three pairs of binary stars: three different stellar couplets revolving around three different centers of mass, but with the trio remaining gravitationally bound to one another and circling the galactic center…

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