Twinned Stars
Known properly as Fels Voa 11, it is a very strange star system, some 140 lightyears from Earth. Essentially, it's a system where, by some extremely low odds, every celestial body, from the three planets to the star, has a twin. In total, the system has six planets, two moons, and two stars.
There are people living in it, though it's too small to be considered a major settlement, at around 2400 people, mostly astronomy-related personnel.
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Geography
The system's major celestial bodies all have twins.
The stars, Fels Voa 11A and 11B respectively. The stars orbit around each other, and the planets orbit their common center of gravity. 11A is a class K star, with around 1.2 solar masses, where 11B is a class M star, at 0.24 solar masses.
The planets are also twinned. All of them are rocky planets with no atmosphere, close to the stars. The first ones, Fels Voa 11(AB)a and 11(AB)b, which are both molten with no atmosphere, being very close to the stars of the system. The second pair is similarly close, but resemble Mercury. The second pair also has a pair of moons, Fels Voa 11(AB)cd I and 11(AB)cd II. The third pair is also quite close, but 11(AB)e resembles Venus while f resembles Mars.
There are a roughly three asteroid belts in the system, all further then the third pair and close enough to each other to be hard to define properly.
History
The system is presumed to originally have been just an ordinary system with one star, Fels Voa 11A, but at some point roughly 3.5 billion years ago, 11B and its celestial bodies came into orbit around 11A. After a long while, the star had settled into a stable orbit, and the planets, all having been at similar distances from their parent stars as their modern companions, also began orbiting their pair. There were a lot of collisions, and the second moon of the second pair was believed to not have been there at first, having likely been formed from stray matter from the many collisions around the system.
Humans arrived in 2341, with the intention to study celestial formations and how this could have been possible. Nowadays there isn't much to research, and the token research teams still in the system are doing very basic work and reviewing centuries-old catalogues.
Tourism
There was a great wave of tourism back when the system was discovered, but by now the interest has waned. The research outpost still does get a fair amount of visitors, but nothing compared to the millions before.
Alternative Name(s)
Fels Voa 11
Type
Star System
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