First six-star system where all six stars undergo eclipses

First six-star system where all six stars undergo eclipses

Space Daily

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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2021

TYC 7037-89-1 is the first six-star system ever found where all of the stars participate in eclipses, a discovery made by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The system is located about 1,900 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The system, also called TIC 168789840, is the first known sextuple composed of three sets of eclipsing binaries, stellar pairs whose or

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