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Rare system of five stars discovered - BBC News
Astronomers have discovered a very rare system of five connected stars.
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Wow, that's amazing! The contact binaries look like they're in the process of merging, I wonder if there will be any large effect on the rest of the system stability if/when this finally happens.
I wonder if the system formed in a star cluster and then migrated out.
The article doesn't really touch on the mass of the stars. But if the illustrations are fairly accurate then they are likely class k stars or smaller.