binary system

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A nova happens in a close binary system when a white dwarf, the dense leftover core of a star, pulls gas from a nearby companion.

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 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

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.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024

These observations were made by adjusting a micrometer to a very powerful telescope, and were data sufficient for the determination of the orbit of the revolving star, should it be a binary system.

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary