For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star ...

Stars have magnetic fields that initially get stronger as the speed of the star’s rotation increases. There are still aspects ...

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A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star ...

“A binary system is gravitationally bound, so it always experiences an internal gravitational acceleration in its orbit,” Chae tells Physics World. If the stars had perfectly circular orbits around ...

With his then-girlfriend (later wife) Jeanne Kuhlman doing graduate work in physics at the University ... won the Nobel Prize for their binary pulsar discovery, he had carved out a niche as a ...

but members of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) at Keene State College were also looking up at the sky and calculating the distance between stars as part of the Binary Star Research Project this ...

Abstract: Binary stars range from solar systems with twin Suns to the most extreme environments in the universe: accreting black holes and neutron stars. Astronomers use binaries to study fundamental ...