binary system
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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
"The evidence strongly supports a binary system containing a magnetar -- a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, and a star like our Sun."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 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
The common centre of gravity of a binary system is situated on a line between both stars, and distant from each in inverse proportion to their respective masses.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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