Most binary systems are hard to detect and may contain more than two stars. In January 2021 the discovery of a new and bizarre sextuple system was reported where all the stars aligned perfectly creating a sextuple eclipsing star system. More strange is that the system seems to consist of three pairs of binary stars locked into an exotic dance.
Contributor and EU advocate, Gareth Samuel, host of “See the Pattern”, builds a picture of how stars might evolve—in this case up to six stars—showing that the interaction of Birkeland currents together is an important aspect of this unusual, almost miraculous, sextuple star system structure.
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