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Recent Examples of binary star
Although binary stars are common, there are far more of these JuMBOs seen than expected, given previous observations of how planetary-mass objects form.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
Ironically, the Depression-era setting makes the film seem far less dated than other movies from 1973, and the binary star system at its center has lost not one photon of its luminescence.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
Then, in August, Kepler scientists discovered a binary star circled by two planets.
—Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2012
Oh, this is too cool: scientists have found a planet orbiting a binary star (a pair of stars in tight orbit around each other) that is at the right distance to have liquid water!
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2012
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
Ironically, the Depression-era setting makes the film seem far less dated than other movies from 1973, and the binary star system at its center has lost not one photon of its luminescence.
—Ty Burr, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
Then, in August, Kepler scientists discovered a binary star circled by two planets.
—Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2012
Oh, this is too cool: scientists have found a planet orbiting a binary star (a pair of stars in tight orbit around each other) that is at the right distance to have liquid water!
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for binary star
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Scientists know that stellar corpses are densely packed with neutrons — one teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh as much as Mount Everest.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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The group calculated that approximately one in three gravitational waves of the right sort (neutron star collisions work best since their mergers last longer than black hole mergers) would make the bar ring with one quantum unit of energy.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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The flag of North Korea features a red star within a white circle set against a wide red stripe, bordered by thinner white and blue stripes.Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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Using these variable stars, scientists can measure the distances to galaxies up to about 100 million light-years from us.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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After the nova, the white dwarf returns to its normal size, and starts the process all over again.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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With many variables at play, White Castle hasn’t measured whether Flippy has improved employee retention, Richardson said.Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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The Moody’s model also factors in other variables, including voter turnout for the non-incumbent party, the incumbent party candidate's approval rating, and the vote share garnered by third parties.Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
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