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binary system

noun as in double star

Weak match

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It’s a binary system; a choice of extremes.

In close binary systems, this expansion is so dramatic that the dying star's outer layers can sometimes completely engulf its companion.

We did not know we would find giant planets forming without parents stars at all, much less that we would see giant stars forming in pairs or binary systems with no stars at all.

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Nemo’s powerhouse number “The Code” is about struggling to find their place and discovering it “somewhere between the zeroes and ones” of a binary system.

Researchers hope to apply their new aging method to other binary systems where dynamics have been well characterized, even without close flybys.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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