The system, designated 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5, consists of two sets of eclipsing binary stars, and a fifth lone star. Quintuple star systems have been discovered before, but this is the first ...

It was kind of like seeing a pregnant octogenarian in a nursing home.” That is what astronomers employed to explain the ...

Quintuple star system 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5 in the centre. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg Five stars are inextricably linked in a star system unlike any that has been seen before.

Astronomers detect a rare multiple star system in which five suns are gravitationally bound together. Multiple systems are not that rare, but one with so many stars is an unusual find, they say.

Scientists have discovered an absolutely bizarre star system about 250 light years away, in the constellation Ursa Major. The system (officially known as 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5) features five ...

The system, named 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5, is located just 250 light-years from Earth in the Ursa Major constellation. ... A Five-Star System That Would 'Put The Makers Of Star Wars To Shame ...

Beat that Tatooine! Solar system with FIVE stars discovered orbiting each other 250 light years from Earth. The quintuple star system is thought to be the first of its kind to be found ...

The system, called 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5, now joins the ranks of only a handful of other quintuple star systems. Of course, it could always grab a couple more and become a seven-star system ...

First known binary star is discovered to be a triplet, quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet system. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 12 ...

The star symbols indicate the location of each newly forming stars. The image covers a region 0.62 by 0.78 light-years in size (which on the sky covers a mere 7.5 times 9.5 arc seconds).

Alcor, 1 half of the first known binary star system, ... In 1908, spectroscopy revealed that Mizar B was also a pair of stars, making the group the first-known quintuple star system.