NOUN
- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
How To Use binary star In A Sentence
- Brownlee is an expert on comets and space dust; Szkody is an authority on binary star systems called cataclysmic variables.
- a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other
- Middle, the 96 X-ray detected non-binary stars showing the cut-off of coronal emission at the dividing line.
- For example, some accretion disks in binary star systems occasionally undergo large, temporary increases in luminosity.
- Her expertise enabled her to make substantial contributions to our understanding of binary stars and stellar life cycles. Times, Sunday Times
- In contrast, in a binary star system both components emit their own light, making possible much larger amplitudes in the variation of the total light received in our telescopes.
- But a binary star—two gravitationally locked stars that orbit each other—"could do it, and a star that already has at least one planet," he said.
- Widely separated binaries, such as visual binary stars, may have formed by tidal capture.
- Near the geographic center of the galaxy was a binary star system called Theralia.
- Binary stars consist of two or more stars held in orbit by their mutual gravitation. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
