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Star system 'resembles game of snooker'

By T.K. Randall
November 11, 2010 · Comment icon 1 comment

Image Credit: NASA
Astronomers have discovered a star system that appears remarkably like a game of snooker.
The star system called NN Serpentis is 1670 light years away and consists of two stars ( one red, one white ) and two gas giants ( one yellow, one blue ) thus creating a snooker-like display of coloured planetary bodies.
Experts from Warwick and Sheffield Universities were part of an international consortium who played a key role in discovering the ''snooker-like'' star system. They looked at a binary star system called NN Serpentis which is 1,670 light years away from Earth.


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