An artistic illustration of the star Gaia17bpp being partially eclipsed by the dust cloud surrounding a smaller companion star — Anastasios Tzanidakis

7-YEAR ECLIPSE

A ‘rare’ binary star system offers once in a lifetime spectacle

Astronomers observed a seven-year-long eclipse for the star Gaia17bpp by chance as it was coming out of it

Going by the design of our own solar system, we were led to believe earlier on that most planetary systems might just host one…