NASA discovers six-star system

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6 pointsbrettcvz2 comments

How far apart from each other are the pairs? If this were our solar system, would the other stars be within the orbits of the planets, or are they much further away from one another than that?

Basically I want to know if this would make a cool Kerbal Space Program setting.

Since the stars are near 1 solar mass and each has <10d orbital period, I think pairs should be nearer than Mercury to our sun which has 88d period.

Then the paper gives the separations of the systems as 18AU for the inner quadruple and 250AU for the whole system. That would put the inner system within the orbit of Uranus and the whole system larger than our solar system which has Kuiper belt at 50AU.

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