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
If the orbit of a binary system lies edgewise toward us, then one star will hide the other each revolution, moving across it and appearing on the other side.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
