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Recent Examples of binary star
Detecting and analyzing these oddities can help Bédard, Sahu, and other researchers gain a more comprehensive understanding of the ultimate fate of many binary star systems.
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Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
The discovery means that Betelgeuse is a binary star system.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Strange things start to happen as the Enterprise follows the Gorn closer to a binary star system.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 July 2025
If the binary star approaches a third object, some of that energy can be swapped around.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2025
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Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
The discovery means that Betelgeuse is a binary star system.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Strange things start to happen as the Enterprise follows the Gorn closer to a binary star system.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 July 2025
If the binary star approaches a third object, some of that energy can be swapped around.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for binary star
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As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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First, locate the red star Betelgeuse using a smartphone astronomy app.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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The yellow ball, with its signature blue stripe and red star, can be spotted among other toys in movies like Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, Inside Out, and the Toy Story franchise.—
Kelly Connolly,
EW.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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After weeks, months and years of observations, astronomers will have a time-lapse record revealing anything that explodes, flashes or moves – such as supernovas, variable stars or asteroids.—
Samantha Thompson,
Space.com,
7 July 2025
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Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 June 2025
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For so many elements to still be visible implies that their accretion onto the white dwarf must have happened relatively recently — within the past 35,000 years.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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For as much planning that goes into a stadium flip of this magnitude, after all — the weather is the variable that isn’t in Tepper Sports’ hands.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Oct. 2025
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That will be the key variable in this entire season.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The other type of star that goes supernova is a giant star with a mass at least eight times greater than the sun.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Binary star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/binary%20star. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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