I ask, because I'm sure I've not broken any records, I never do, but I'm counting thirteen stars in this system. Couldn't even fit it on the screen properly.
What's the record for most stars in a system?
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I've been having a think about this, because I wasn't sure why the stellar forge had thrown up such a system. And then suddenly, it struck me.
When I'm travelling between two distant points, many jumps on the way, I like to detour via nebulae - I'm sure lots of explorers do the same. In this case, I'd spotted a tiny fuzzy mark on the map, which turned out to have just one star inside it; I thought it might be a planetary nebula, I've found some very nice planetary nebulae before, and although the fact that the primary star was listed as a T confused me, I still went along with the expectation of a pretty sky, a quick photo, and head onwards.
But what I eventually realised is going on here is: it's a fantastically compact star-forming region, only a little over 8,000Ls from first star to last. Every one of those is a very young star (plus the gas giants, which didn't quite make it to starhood). Given a few hundred million years, I imagine that competing gravitational forces will break this structure apart, possibly with some violence, possibly in a sedate gradual fashion.
Anyway, I found it really interesting.
When I'm travelling between two distant points, many jumps on the way, I like to detour via nebulae - I'm sure lots of explorers do the same. In this case, I'd spotted a tiny fuzzy mark on the map, which turned out to have just one star inside it; I thought it might be a planetary nebula, I've found some very nice planetary nebulae before, and although the fact that the primary star was listed as a T confused me, I still went along with the expectation of a pretty sky, a quick photo, and head onwards.
But what I eventually realised is going on here is: it's a fantastically compact star-forming region, only a little over 8,000Ls from first star to last. Every one of those is a very young star (plus the gas giants, which didn't quite make it to starhood). Given a few hundred million years, I imagine that competing gravitational forces will break this structure apart, possibly with some violence, possibly in a sedate gradual fashion.
Anyway, I found it really interesting.
https://www.edsm.net/en/system/bodies/id/29630/name/4+Cygni
If nothing changed this could still be the record.
If nothing changed this could still be the record.
I know there's 2MASS J02351897+6131236 that has 20 stars and 2 black holes, but not sure there's any real documentation on the actual records that I've seen. There's also one system that has 21 T-Tauri stars too that was mentioned in http://universalcartographics.org as being that single record.
Anything pretty much over 10 is a good find though, so you can still pat yourself on the back for it...
Anything pretty much over 10 is a good find though, so you can still pat yourself on the back for it...
Most I've seen was HIP 63835, with 14 stars and 3 black holes, but I'm pretty sure 4 Cygni is a winner.
Had to necro this thread because I just stumbled on this undiscovered system with 15 stars (one Herbig Ae/Be and fourteen T Tauris). Yeah, a pretty young system. Not so spetacular discovery, but here is. Took 2 screenshots to fit it:
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Wait, what? How could I didn't know it?
I'll sign in on EDSM right now. Thank you commander!