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Thursday, January 28, 2021
CONTEXT: A Bound System of Six Stars, Including Three Eclipsing Binaries
📣Discovery alert!📣
— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) January 27, 2021
In a first, astronomers find a system of six stars made of three eclipsing binaries. Stars orbit their partners and pairs circle each other. It's a star dance party in space! @NASA's TESS space telescope spotted this strange system.https://t.co/iVGdrwkUyy pic.twitter.com/SYpeadmpML
Here is the scientific paper: “TIC 168789840: A Sextuply-Eclipsing Sextuple Star System”. This is going to be great fun to model with numerical integration.
Posted at January 28, 2021 13:43