Marcussen+ solve a complex multiple stellar system in a very elegant paper: “The ยต Herculis system solved after nearly three centuries”. It’s rare that the figures in a paper make me stop and say “Wow!” and I tip my hat to the authors for genuinely beautiful diagrams. Go take a look! #astrodon ๐Ÿ”ญโ˜„

Three panels of the multiple stellar system mu Her. The top panel shows the widest view with ellipses showing the orbits of the stellar components. The projected ellipses are shown as 'shadows' cast onto the sky plane, and different components are coloured differently making a clean interpretation of the whole system.Astrometric projection onto one of the ellipses. It looks like a giant olive pierced by about one hundred short cocktail sticks.

Matthew Kenworthy @kenworthy