binary system
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The two asteroids orbit a shared center of mass in what scientists call a binary system.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
"The evidence strongly supports a binary system containing a magnetar -- a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, and a star like our Sun."
From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 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)
