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 ...

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

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 ...

A "zombie" star could possibly rise from the dead on Halloween night for the first time in decades, according to space experts.

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 ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been monitoring the binary star system R Aquarii. Credit: NASA / ESA / Matthias Stute / Margarita Karovska / Davide De Martin / Mahdi Zamani New images from NASA's ...

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 ...

NON-BINARY star Emma Corrin is being lined up to play Keira Knightley’s role in Pride And Prejudice. The Crown actor, 28, is the favourite of script writer Dolly Alderton to portray Elizabeth ...