Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...
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Scientists finally have explanation for the missing planets of tight binary stars
Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...
How many Earth-sized exoplanets orbit binary star systems (two-star systems)? This is what a recent study accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...
Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's Atacama Desert. The image was captured with the newly installed SOAR ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time-lapsed here to show the evolution of the region. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.
Only 16 to 84 other examples of this exotic system may exist in our entire galaxy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers ...
The Kuiper Belt object Altjira was thought to be a binary, but closer analysis suggests that it is highly likely to be a triple system This raises the question of the three-body problem; if Altjira ...
Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...
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