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How many stars can a solar system have?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There More Than Five Stars?

We have found star systems with more than five stars. There's one we saw recently, which is a crazy six star system. It's like a 70 swinging party space. I don't know if they have any planets. Well, it's just so chaotic. Why there's so much gravity all the time, that id be pretty hard to find a stable orbit. And then those two organized into a binary and then that quad star system is in a binary relationship with another binary star. So it's definitely hierarchical. We haven't seen any, but it's pretty crazy.

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