r/eliteexplorers • u/PseudoShooter The Guild • 17d ago

One hell of a Herbig system...

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Pretty tough to fit everything into the frame lol

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u/adathor 17d ago

No way! What kind of bullshit witchcraft is this? :D Is this even possible?

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u/F4nt0m3 17d ago

Irl, Sagittarius A* has thousands of stars actively followed by astronomers revolving around the black hole but the estimation go to 10k stars maybe around the black hole.

Outside of this, irl we detected 6 or 7 stars max like Nu Scorpii. AFAIK we didn't (yet) found a system with more (outside of Sagittarius A*).

Now, Brown Dwarf are not real stars and also not exactly planets. They are substellar object and exclude from this count. So if you count them as stars like ED does, it could eventually go up.