binary system
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The new research found that the impact also expelled enough material from the binary system to slightly alter its path around the Sun.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
EX Hydrae exists in a binary system alongside a normal main sequence star.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
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
A pairing of stars in this way, though often casually alluded to as a double star, is properly termed a "binary," or binary system.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius
