Tightly Orbiting Binary Stars Are So Close They Could Both Fit Inside the Sun

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Binary star system ZTF J2020+5033 and it’s only 457 light-years away, really close in the grand scheme of things. However, what’s really close is how near to one another this orbiting pair is. So near they’ve just broken the record.

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