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TESS Finds a Triple Star System that Could Fit within Mercury's Orbit


, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has been on the lookout for alien worlds since 2018. It has just hit the news again having identified an extreme triple star system where two stars orbit each other every 1.8 days.

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