A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young binary ...
Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...
Astronomers don’t have to work hard to find binary stars in the Milky Way. They’re common, even abundant. For a long time, ...
The binary star system ν Octantis has long been considered hostile to planet formation. The discovery of a white dwarf in the system offers an alternative view. However, Cheng and colleagues observe ...