Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which spotted the star system NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Astronomers have spotted a bizarre star system in which six stars orbit and eclipse each other when viewed from our solar system.
Using data from NASA鈥檚 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is designed primarily to find exoplanets, Benjamin Montet at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and his colleagues observed the system known as TIC 168789840, located 1900 light years away.
TESS searches for alien worlds by looking for the dip in a star鈥檚 light when a planet passes in…
