Sentence examples for binary star in the from inspiring English sources
It is a binary star in the constellation Canis Major.
But other observations need to confirm the true planetary nature of these candidate events, because the observed dips may also be due to an eclipsing binary star in the background whose light blends with the foreground star studied by Kepler.
Now, Alceste Bonanos of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C., and colleagues have observed a so-called eclipsing binary star in the Triangulum galaxy, a large neighbor of our own Milky Way.
Pleione (28 Tauri, BU Tauri) is a binary star in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), located roughly 390 light years away in the constellation of Taurus.
The use of Blendanal ruled out the possibilities that the signal was caused by that of a hierarchical triple star or a mixture between a bright star and a binary star in the background.
It was recognized as a potential planet after a study into the system confirmed Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c, but follow-up studies had to be completed to verify that it was indeed a planet, and that the apparent transit event was not due to a background eclipsing binary star in the aperture of Kepler's photometer.
Now, astronomers have used observations of eight pairs of binary stars in the distant cluster to develop a new figure.
This is a binary star in which one member is sucking matter from the other.
Zeta Aurigae was spectroscopically determined to be a double star by Antonia Maury in 1897 and was confirmed as a binary star in 1908 by William Wallace Campbell.
The series is named after Spica, a binary star system in the constellation Virgo and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky.
