How to Use binary star in a Sentence

binary star

noun

• What the team doesn't yet understand is quite how this planet formed around its binary stars.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025
• This leaves a binary star system with two white dwarfs orbiting around each other.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
• These systems are called eclipsing binary stars.
  — Andrej Prša, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• Luke Skywalker’s dusty home of Tatooine was in such a binary star system.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Usually the white dwarf accretes this extra mass from its partner in a binary star system.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• The binary star system sits roughly 150 light-years from Earth.
  — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
• The stellar-mass black holes found in some binary star systems are too small to be observed in detail by telescopes anytime soon.
  — John Dvorak, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2018
• And the members of binary star systems tend to form near each other from a single cloud of material.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
• The binary star system is actually visible to us with the naked eye.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
• If the binary stars orbited closely enough, one star's carbon could transfer to the other.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2016
• When the binary star system disappears, one single star will remain.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
• Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 22 May 2025
• Chatzopoulos' team has proposed that Betelgeuse was once part of a binary star system.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2020
• In most binary star systems, two stars orbit each other in elliptical paths.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 16 Feb. 2026
• But binary star systems are pretty common, and our nearest neighbor appears to be a three-star system.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• Now, the researchers said their findings prove that young binary stars also have the potential to form in such harsh conditions.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
• As Parker pointed out, many stars are born with a binary partner from the same cloud and become binary stars.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
• The alternative is a process similar to that which creates a binary star system.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• At times, neutron stars are born as a pair in binary star systems when one celestial object orbits another.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021
• However, as the new study reveals, some binary stars can survive in these conditions, albeit only for a brief amount of time.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
• But four months of observations revealed the star system might not be an ordinary binary star system.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2020
• Astronomers have now identified the source of that brief brightening — a binary star system a couple of thousand light-years away.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• Again, that shouldn't be surprising, given the statistics of how high the frequency of close-in binary star systems are.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2020
• The outburst came from a strange array of cooler molecules, not the helium and hydrogen spewed by binary stars.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2023
• However, at certain times a series of eclipses will line up — the outer star will eclipse the binary star, and the planet will eclipse the outer star as seen from the moon.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 June 2026
• Aldebaran is actually a binary star system comprising an orange giant and a red dwarf star, though the latter is way too faint to see.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
• But prose and poetry, although often portrayed as binary stars exerting equal force, are in fact more like a vast planet and its tiny, clinging moon.
  — David Orr, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• Research has shown that type Ia supernovae originate from some binary star systems containing at least one white dwarf.
  — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
• Scientists have never been able to detect the binary star system within the S-cluster -- until now.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
• However, there is another way to find this binary star system, in the constellation of Virgo, at this time of year.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 May 2021