Have we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?

I'm just curious, cos I know the largest star we know of makes the Sun look like a spec of dust so it seems plausable you could have smaller stars orbiting these gigantic stars.



Have any such systems been discovered?Have we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?yeHave we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?
Lily -



We can state with some assurance that:



1. The Sun is a slightly-larger-than-average-star.

2. Most of the stars that we can see with the naked eye (i.e. most of the stars with which we are familiar) are larger than our Sun.

3. This means that there are a lot of stars that are smaller than our Sun that we cannot see. They are too small and too dim.

4. More than half of the stars that we can see are at least double stars, i.e two stars orbiting around a common mass center. The relative sizes of these stars can vary by a substantial amount. Our Sun is an exception within our galaxy, in that it is a pretty big star with no companion star.

5. There are plenty of stars that consist of three, four, or multiple stars all orbiting a common mass center - or orbiting each other in complex systems. They appear to be relatively stable, although some are spread out over light years of distance.Have we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?You are confused, apparently.

A star is a great big ball of gas.

The "largest" known star in DIAMETER is VY Canis Majoris, it is ~2000 times =bigger than the Sun

It is about 30 to 40 times more massive than the Sun.

Earth is 220 times smaller (in diameter) than the Sun

The Sun is 330,000 times more massive than the Earth.

So for VY Canis to be "like" the Sun we need to find a star 40 梅 330,000 = 0.00012 times the Mass of the Sun. Jupiter is 1050 times smaller than the Sun. Jupiter is ten times too big to fit your idea. Jupiter is too small to be a star.

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No. Your idea is not physically possible (to our knowledge). Alpha Centuri is (we think) a 3 star system. Stars are uniform in mass but quite variable in diameter. Stars are balls of gas.Have we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?
Not SEVERAL small stars, though those systems may exist. There ARE binary systems, similar to Earth and the moon. What effects the gravity of one has on the other is still a mystery, at least to me.Have we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?One star doesn't orbit the other they both orbit a central point.Have we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?
Yes - some are binary systems.



In our own solar system, Jupiter is almost large enough to make a small star,Have we ever discovered a star system with one large star and then smaller stars orbiting it?
Yes these stellar systems have been found. Most common is a binary (2 stars) star system, I believe there are some star systems with 3 stars orbiting eachother, and maybe more!
There are many such systems. Castor (in Gemini) is an extreme example, with two Sun like stars orbitting a pair of giants, and a pair of red dwarfs also in an orbit around the others.

What you need to get a giant with a Sun like star is to start with a class O or B star with a class G companion. Since only about 2% of stars are G, and less than 0.5% are O or B, such systems are not common, but in a galaxy of over 200 billion stars, they exist.