binary system

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EX Hydrae exists in a binary system alongside a normal main sequence star.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

TOI-2267 consists of two stars locked in a close orbital dance, forming what astronomers call a compact binary system.

From Science Daily • Nov. 12, 2025

This strange new world orbits around two stars at once, which dance around each other in what astronomers call a binary system.

From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

It is a binary system, the component bodies revolving around their common centre of gravity in a period of about two hundred years.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius