binary system
noun
: binary star
also
: a similar system containing bodies (such as black holes) other than stars
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Thus, if free-floating planetary mass objects are indeed brown dwarfs, the sheer number of them seen as binary systems is difficult to explain.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Writing to a Jesuit missionary in China, Leibniz floated the idea that the binary system might help to convert the Chinese to Christianity, by familiarizing them with the Biblical concept of creation ex nihilo.
—Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Around 50% of stars with masses around that of the sun exist in a binary system with another star.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Writing to a Jesuit missionary in China, Leibniz floated the idea that the binary system might help to convert the Chinese to Christianity, by familiarizing them with the Biblical concept of creation ex nihilo.
—Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Around 50% of stars with masses around that of the sun exist in a binary system with another star.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Binary system.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/binary%20system. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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