double star
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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 first double star discovered was Mizar, the middle star of the three in Ursa Major which form the tail of the bear.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
