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How many stars can a solar system have?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Binary Star System Turns Out to Be Trinary

We originally thought it was a binary system, because you can see the two stars visually. But then it turns out that one of them looks like a binary star, right? So instead of having a binary star system, nove a trinary. And then it turns into an apsolarfuna system. Can you have more than four stars? You can. There's a system of five stars. This is called the glease system,. But is that hierarchy due to the size like each as you go down a level, the suns get smaller. Are they all the same size? Tit just happen to be trapped in tis hierarical orbits?

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