binary system
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To leave one captured star on the short orbit observed in rpTDEs, the original binary system would have to be extremely compact.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Though he takes a minute to upbraid her, they’re obviously the show’s binary system, and Decker is in any case a cheery sort who takes things in stride — even prison, seemingly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
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 Christopher Leadem
