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double star

NOUN
two stars that orbit each other
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It will be a double star ceremony, and I’m so excited and can’t wait for that.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

And a smaller quibble: movie also purports in an early scene to show the double star Mizar and Alcor, but the photograph on screen is not of them.

From Salon May 6, 2023

A star like Mizar A, which appears as a single star when photographed or observed visually through the telescope, but which spectroscopy shows really to be a double star, is called a spectroscopic binary.

From Textbooks Oct. 13, 2016

Throughout April, Mars, Saturn and the red variable double star Antares form a triangular, cosmic congregation.

From Washington Post Apr. 2, 2016

The latter element enters only when it is a question of recognizing the duplicity of a double star, or of distinguishing detail upon the surface of a planet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various



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