double star
Example Sentences
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It will be a double star ceremony, and I’m so excited and can’t wait for that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
And a smaller quibble: movie also purports in an early scene to show the double star Mizar and Alcor, but the photograph on screen is not of them.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
A star like Mizar A, which appears as a single star when photographed or observed visually through the telescope, but which spectroscopy shows really to be a double star, is called a spectroscopic binary.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Throughout April, Mars, Saturn and the red variable double star Antares form a triangular, cosmic congregation.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2016
This is a double star, the components being about forty-one seconds of arc apart, the larger of four and one half magnitude, and the smaller of the seventh magnitude.
From Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Garrett Putman Serviss
