Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, ...

The only way to fully ensure compliance with the binary system is to rebuild the code. Some of the most prominent software vendors provide a reproducible build environment that allows the end user ...

The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical ...

An international team of astronomers has performed multiwavelength observations of a gamma-ray binary system known as HESS ...

When the binary star system disappears, one single star will remain. "We calculated that it could be tomorrow, next week or maybe in a million years -- which, from an astrophysical point of view ...

categories:Stars | tags:Magazine, StarsA: Yes, planetary systems can exist in binary star systems. As of July 2019, astronomers have found 97 planetary systems containing 143 planets around binary ...

Said lead author Kathryn Lester of NASA Ames, "Since roughly 50% of stars are in binary systems, we could be missing the discovery of -- and the chance to study -- a lot of Earth-like planets." ...