hip-93917

Its story

17 Lyrae is a multiple system about 143 light-years away, set within the small Lyra that hosts Vega. Its primary is an F0 main-sequence star, 60% more massive than the Sun and sixteen times brighter, locked in a 42.9-day spectroscopic orbit with an unseen companion. A second star, barely two and a half arcseconds away, completes the telescopic pair. What looks like a single point of light is, up close, a knot of suns.