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
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
Throughout April, Mars, Saturn and the red variable double star Antares form a triangular, cosmic congregation.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2016
The outstanding fact is that the electrical conditions of a double star must be radically different and vastly more intense than those of a single star like the sun.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
