Our sixth astronomical gift is … an eclipsing six-star system! Astronomers found a system whose six stars all undergo eclipses, using data from our planet hunter TESS, a supercomputer, and automated eclipse-identifying software. go.nasa.gov/3HDSBmu #NASAUniverse
Astronomers found the first six-star system where all of the stars participate in eclipses, a discovery made by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The system is about 1,900 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
i know that the conditions would've probably make intelligent life on earth impossible, but I wish our system had phenomena like that, the sights would be something to behold
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in reply to NASA • • •Reminiscent of Isaac Asimov's story "Nightfall."
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson