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Tamás Borkovits

Lead researcher, HUN-REN-SZTE Stellar Astrophysics Research Group

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"TIC 120362137 is a record-holder in the sense that we found that the outermost star has an orbital period of only around 1,046 days, which is the shortest amongst all the currently known 3+1 quadruple stars by far." — Tamás Borkovits

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TESS reveals the universe's tightest-packed quadruple star system

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Active researcher at the University of Szeged, Hungary

For centuries, astronomers assumed most stars were loners, but space telescopes have revealed that multi-star systems are actually common and can be densely packed. A Hungarian-led team has now found the most extreme example: four stars in a region between our Sun and Jupiter, the tightest '3+1'-type system ever recorded.

Updated May 30