Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system, and ...

Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned out to be an eclipsing variable binary. The finding of the new star, which ...

TESS previously revealed that Thuban, a former North Star, is also a eclipsing binary, as ... More illustrated here. Three such pairs make up a newly discovered sextuple star system called TYC ...

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University of California - Santa Barbara. "Unique eclipsing binary star system discovered." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 June 2010. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 05 / 100519092704.htm>.

About 80 eclipsing binaries are known to be components of multiple-star systems. This is less than 2% of all known eclipsing-binary systems, but the actual total is certainly much higher than this, as ...

Astrophysicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), are the first scientists to identify two white dwarf stars in an eclipsing binary system, allowing for the first direct ...

The two white dwarf stars complete an orbit around each other every seven minutes. It’s also known as an eclipsing binary system because one of the stars repeatedly crosses in front of the other.

Kepler-16b was a transiting planet in an eclipsing binary system. So it’s the best-measured planet outside of the solar system.

Scientists continue to debate over whether binary systems like this will eventually merge, with one of the dead stars consuming the other, or if they might remain with both bodies in orbit around ...