Illustration of the binary stars (IMAGE)

Northwestern University

Illustration of the binary stars

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Illustration of the oldest known pair of ultracool dwarf stars that orbit each other so closely, they take less than one Earth day to revolve around each other.

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Adam Burgasser/UC San Diego

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