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
The planet travels across the heavens with the double star Spica, a first magnitude object similar in brightness to Mars — dim for the Washington area.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2017
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
The telescope was directed at the double star Castor; which, with Pollux, was glittering brightly in the black-looking sky, when Uncle Richard made way for the boy to take his place.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
