The third star takes a while longer to circle the pair, completing an orbit once every 24.5 days.
The astronomers were able to analyze the pattern of the stars thanks to NASAs Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
Those cameras capture images of light thats within the range visible by humans.
This artist’s image illustrates just how tight the orbital pattern of the three stars is.© NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Thats where the pair of citizen scientists, I.A.
Terentev of Russia and H.M. Schwengeler of Switzerland, came in.
The two were instrumental in figuring out that TIC 290061484 met the criteria.
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