‘First of its kind’: Triple Star System Detected by Astronomers in Space / WION NEWS
JAKARTA, kilat.com- Imagine three stars orbiting each other in space that are each the size of at least 12 suns! That’s a discovery that has become a popular topic among astronomers who want to use the information to understand the cosmos a little better.
System bintang three are described by experts as “something unlike anything ever seen before” and according to research published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers believe that there is a fourth star in the system, but that it was most likely “eaten” by three stars. other.
“As far as we know, this is the first of its kind ever detected. We know of many tertiary star systems (three star systems), but they are usually significantly less massive. The massive stars in this triple are very close together. It is a compact system,” Alejandro Vigna-Gomez, co-lead author of the study and postdoc at Niels Bohr International Academy, said in a press statement.
At first, the researchers thought the system had two stars, but citizen scientists were able to track a third star using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) observatory.
It is not common for three star systems to exist in space with NASA puts the estimate in ten percent of the total star systems in the universe at this time. The first discoveries of this kind were made in September 2021, but the system is larger than any previous discovery in this area. (nda)
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