Scientists discover first of its kind 3-star system in deep space
Imagine three stars orbiting each other in the depths of space and that each of these stars is at least the size of 12 suns. That discovery has turned into a hot topic among astronomers, who are hoping to use the knowledge to gain a deeper understanding of the universe as a whole as a result of the discovery.
The tertiary star system, also known as TIC 470710327, was discovered by researchers using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) observatory, which is in orbit around the Earth. The three stars are organized in a hierarchical structure, which means that at the core of the system, a pair of binary stars orbit one another, and a third star orbits the central pair of stars.
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When a group of amateur astronomers was looking through the data that TESS had acquired, they came upon the tertiary star system and made the discovery. The astronomers initially speculated that the system was a stellar binary, which is a system consisting of just two stars, which was based on the amount of luminosity that was being detected by the NASA satellite. On the other hand, additional analysis of the data and the identification of the abnormalities in the detection proved that the system in question does contain three.
As was said before, the data from NASA's transiting exoplanet survey spacecraft, also known as TESS, which orbits the Earth, was used to make the discovery.
