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QS Aquilae is a triple or quadruple star system consisting of an
eclipsing binary A binary star is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night sky that are seen as a single object to the naked eye are often resolved using a telescope as separate stars, in w ...
in a 2.5 day orbit around which a third star orbits in 77 years. There is some indication that there is a fourth component with a period of roughly 18 years. It is located in the constellation Aquila and is barely visible to the naked eye.


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Aquila (constellation) 185936 Spectroscopic binaries Algol variables Eclipsing binaries Aquilae, QS 7846 B-type main-sequence stars 096840 Durchmusterung objects {{var-star-stub