binary system

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This discovery also confirms a long-predicted type of binary system that had never been clearly identified.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

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 virtually certain that RR Centauri is a case of an eclipsing binary system, and that the two stars are close together.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)