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Binary star   /bˈaɪnəri stɑr/   Listen
Binary star

noun
1.
A system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation.  Synonyms: binary, double star.






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"Binary star" Quotes from Famous Books



... the son should strive to develop this territory newly opened up to research. But it also happened that the mathematical talents of the younger Herschel inclined his inquiries in the same direction. He saw clearly that, when sufficient observations of any particular binary star had been accumulated, it would then be within the power of the mathematician to elicit from those observations the shape and the position in space of the path which each of the revolving stars described around the other. Indeed, in some cases he would be able to perform the astonishing feat of ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball



Words linked to "Binary star" :   star, Altair, binary, Dog Star, Rigil Kent, Procyon, Rigil, Canicula, Sothis, Alpha Centauri, Antares, Epsilon Aurigae, Beta Orionis, Vega, Rigel, double star, Sirius, Aldebaran, algol



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