binary system
noun
: binary star
also
: a similar system containing bodies (such as black holes) other than stars
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The radar images showed the asteroid is roughly spherical and is one of a pair, called a binary system.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2024
As part of processing its data, the Gaia team attempts to identify both overall motion and any indications that a star is orbiting as part of a binary system.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
As technology has advanced in the past 80 years, researchers are set to obtain new insights into the lifecycles of binary systems and the waning but powerful stellar processes that fuel them making this T CrB nova particularly exciting.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
Hard Science The Sun was half of a binary system, a new paper suggests
The theory could resolve some unanswered questions.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2024
As part of processing its data, the Gaia team attempts to identify both overall motion and any indications that a star is orbiting as part of a binary system.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
As technology has advanced in the past 80 years, researchers are set to obtain new insights into the lifecycles of binary systems and the waning but powerful stellar processes that fuel them making this T CrB nova particularly exciting.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
Hard Science The Sun was half of a binary system, a new paper suggests
The theory could resolve some unanswered questions.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
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