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How many stars can a solar system have?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is It Possible to Capture an Object That's Passing By?

This is really rare. There's very few systems likes and this particular one is super weird because not only does it have like six stars in it, but they are eclipsing. So these stars are all eclipsing binaries, which means that all of them orbit each other in just the right plane so that they block the light from each other on its way to earth. This was discovered by a test, which is this awesome telescope that looks for exo planets via this transit method,. f, dimming of the light of a star to see something passing in front of it. And so it detected all these crazy activities in this one solar system. Well, it was like blinking like crazy.

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