Sentence examples for multiple star system from inspiring English sources

Astronomers have estimated that more than half of all stars in the Milky Way Galaxy are members of a double or a more complex multiple star system.

All of these procedures have been carried out for the faint binary Castor C (two red-dwarf components of the six-member Castor multiple star system) and for the bright B-type star Mu Scorpii.

It is a multiple star system consisting of three B-type stars, the spectroscopic binary α1 and α2, that are of roughly the same brightness and are close enough together to appear as one star to the naked eye.

A team led by Laurent Loinard of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City analyzed 20 years of observations of the multiple star system T Tauri, taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico.

20 Leonis Minoris is a multiple star system 49 ly away from the Sun.

Sigma Coronae Borealis, on the other hand, is a true multiple star system divisible by small amateur telescopes.

In about 20% of the multiples in the Tokovinin catalogue of multiple star systems in the Solar neighbourhood, the outer star is more massive than the inner two stars.

He says the finding is "definitely an intriguing result," because it "shows that our understanding of the birth and early evolution of multiple star systems is far from complete".

Astronomers Ben Zuckerman and Inseok Song of the University of California (UC), Los Angeles, and their colleagues describe 17 single and multiple star systems moving through space with Beta Pic, at an average distance of just 100 light-years from Earth.

Beta, Delta and Kappa are multiple star systems containing six, two and four stars respectively.

The origins of these stars is still unclear, but most models suggest that these stars are the result of mass transfer in multiple star systems.