binary system
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This strange new world orbits around two stars at once, which dance around each other in what astronomers call a binary system.
From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025
It’s a binary system; a choice of extremes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024
Nemo’s powerhouse number “The Code” is about struggling to find their place and discovering it “somewhere between the zeroes and ones” of a binary system.
From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024
In a binary system, the stars would orbit around one another until the more massive star's thick, hydrogen-rich envelope expands.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023
He dimmed the lights and switched a graphic onto the wall-screen behind him: a binary system, the elliptical figure-eight of the planet's orbit encircling two nearly identical suns.
From Oberheim (Voices) by Leadem, Christopher
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
