Astronomers Find a Newly-Forming Quadruple-Star System

A team of astronomers searching through the Orion Nebula found one cloud containing a quadrupole-star system under formation. Newly forming quadrupole-star systems have been discovered before, but this group is much closer together less than 1,000 astronomical units. Finding objects like this will help astronomers understand the dynamics of star formation and how clouds of gas and dust fragment into smaller pockets that eventually become individual stars.

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