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This artist\'s concept illustrates a quadruple-star system. The system is still relatively young, at 10 million years old. One of its two pairs of stars is known to be circled by a dusty disk, which contains materials that are thought to clump together to form planets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

This artist's concept illustrates a quadruple-star system. The system is still relatively young, at 10 million years old. One of its two pairs of stars is known to be circled by a dusty disk, which contains materials that are thought to clump together to form planets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

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