double star
Example Sentences
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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
The planet travels across the heavens with the double star Spica, a first magnitude object similar in brightness to Mars — dim for the Washington area.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2017
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
The most striking of these is γ, which is historically interesting as the first double star discovered.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss
