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"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and exciting." ...
The JWST continues to live up to its promise by revealing things hidden from other telescopes. One of its lesser-known ...
Romeo and Juliet were a pair of doomed, star-crossed ... double white dwarf binary has been anticipated, so when I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our Galactic doorstep ...
Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a binary star system consisting ... so when I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our Galactic doorstep ...
It was discovered that V2787 Ori is a shallow-contact, total-eclipsing binary with a factor of f = 0.181(±0.077) and an extremely low mass ratio of q = 0.120(±0.002). The primary contributes about 95% ...
This illustration depicts a binary star system consisting of a dense neutron ... the neutron star is dormant—it is not actively stealing mass from its companion and is thus very faint.
This is a movie of the explosion of a double white dwarf binary star system. The simulation was ... The double white dwarf has the highest total mass known to date, coming in at (1.555+-0.044 ...
Pairs circle around each other using different methods of travel to represent binary stars - a star system where both stars orbit around their common centre of mass. Then pairs and small groups ...