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TESS reveals triple-binary eclipsing star system & Sun-like star with extremely close exoplanets
January 29, 2021
The first-discovered triple-binary sextuple star system and a Sun-like star with five exoplanets orbiting within the distance of Mercury are just two recent examples of the extraordinary systems being investigated and discovered by scientist using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS.
The joint NASA-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mission is the cornerstone of two recently presented discoveries that characterize two tantalizing systems and their benefit to understanding stellar system formation.
A sextuplly-eclipsing sextuple system
Finding a system with six stars is rare to begin with. Finding such a system with three sets of binaries, all of which are eclipsing binaries when viewed from Earth is even more rare.