Caption Until now, the binary star system Capella appeared in visible light telescopes as a single "star" larger than the red dotted circle. FIRST was able to resolve the two stars and, based on ...

"Since about half the stars in our galaxy are in binary systems where life might develop too, we introduce a model of a ...

There were thus disclosed spectroscopic binary stars, systems with components ... Some of the more famous of these new stars are Capella, Polaris, Xi Ursae Majoris, Kappa Pegasi, Castor, Spica ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

The "failed star" Gliese 229B has been revealed to be ... The revelation means that Gliese 229B is a "first-of-its-kind" tight brown dwarf binary, increasing the hope other such exotic systems ...

Problem solved? If the problem is supplying enough lithium to build batteries for all the electric vehicles that will be needed by 2030, then a new lithium deposit in Arkansas might be a ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...

this discrepancy between Gliese 229B's brightness and mass may be because it's actually a binary star system, consisting of two brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are astronomical objects that are often ...

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...

Some of the most interesting binary stars are close pairings, where one compact component, typically a white dwarf, neutron star or black hole, is accreting mass from the other component, typically a ...

Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. This original text provides a pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to binary stars. The author combines theory and observations at all ...

Pairs circle around each other using different methods of travel to represent binary stars - a star system where both stars orbit around their common centre of mass. Then pairs and small groups ...