One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

Credit: Hurley-Walker et al Surprisingly, the evidence pointed to an unassuming binary ... but some similar star systems have been observed and could provide some clues. For example, the AR ...

Adhara is a binary star system approximately 430 light-years from Earth. The primary star, a blue-white supergiant, is the dominant component of the system, with its companion being a fainter ...

A simple example is solar panels ... "We apply the model to candidate systems, spider pulsars, which are binary stars ...

In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary ... system, proving that it contains a massive and fast-spinning white dwarf. HD 49798 is a bright blue star ...

It’s a rare occurrence According to NASA, only three such “Jekyll and Hyde” examples of binary star systems have been discovered so far. The first was in 2013 where the binary stars IGR ...

A red dwarf star, paired with a white dwarf, was identified as the source of GLEAM-X J0704-37 using data from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. This system likely includes a red dwarf 0.32 ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a close-up look at R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star system located around 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Red Giant and a ...