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double star

noun as in two stars that orbit each other

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This is a double star of the first magnitude, which, being only 30 from the south celestial pole, never rises in our latitudes.

Whenever you have a chance of looking at the heavens through a telescope, you should ask to be shown what is called a double star.

Some motion must, therefore, be going on in every genuine double star, whether we have been able to see that motion or not.

Especially is this true in the case of two suns like those forming a double star.

There is a particularly beautiful double star of this kind in the constellation of the Swan.

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