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Recent Examples of binary star
This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
This leaves a binary star system with two white dwarfs orbiting around each other.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
The unprecedented observations of such bright, long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning, astronomers say.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Astronomers suggest that supermassive black holes create hypervelocity stars when binary stars (a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other) get too close.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
This leaves a binary star system with two white dwarfs orbiting around each other.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
The unprecedented observations of such bright, long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning, astronomers say.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Astronomers suggest that supermassive black holes create hypervelocity stars when binary stars (a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other) get too close.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for binary star
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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As the star's core rapidly crushes down to form a neutron star, the outer layers and most of the star's mass are blown away in a core-collapse supernova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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One day this boy wants to be a red star inside those red walls.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2024
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And then, critically, the giant star’s core runs out of helium fuel.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Apr. 2025
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Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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Importantly, the two groups, only a few weeks apart in age, were not expected to differ significantly from one another, which would reduce the probability of confounding variables.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Apr. 2025
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The start and end of that season changes based on a wide set of variables, but the presence of Velella velellas indicates a shift in winds and currents, Stock said.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Binary star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/binary%20star. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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