How to Use binary star in a Sentence

binary star

noun

• Luke Skywalker’s dusty home of Tatooine was in such a binary star system.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• The stellar-mass black holes found in some binary star systems are too small to be observed in detail by telescopes anytime soon.
  — John Dvorak, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2018
• The goal was simple: explore how planets form in binary star systems.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2022
• As Parker pointed out, many stars are born with a binary partner from the same cloud and become binary stars.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
• As roughly half of all stars lie in binary star systems, this means that astronomers could be missing many Earth-sized worlds, NoirLab notes.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• And the members of binary star systems tend to form near each other from a single cloud of material.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
• Now, the researchers said their findings prove that young binary stars also have the potential to form in such harsh conditions.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
• If the binary stars orbited closely enough, one star's carbon could transfer to the other.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2016
• The planets that researchers have turned up range from big and weird — like a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a binary star system — to ones that are closer in size and orbit to Earth.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 6 July 2018
• Again, that shouldn't be surprising, given the statistics of how high the frequency of close-in binary star systems are.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2020
• The binary star system is actually visible to us with the naked eye.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
• While Hubble was unable to see through the expanding cloud of dust and debris, Webb provided the first look at the binary star system that formed the nebula.
  — Silas Laycock, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• Usually the white dwarf accretes this extra mass from its partner in a binary star system.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Chatzopoulos' team has proposed that Betelgeuse was once part of a binary star system.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2020
• Astronomers have now identified the source of that brief brightening — a binary star system a couple of thousand light-years away.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• However, as the new study reveals, some binary stars can survive in these conditions, albeit only for a brief amount of time.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
• And so, the detection techniques that were used to find the very first exoplanets around, sort of sun-like stars, were the same types of detection techniques that have been used to study binary star systems for years.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
• But binary star systems are pretty common, and our nearest neighbor appears to be a three-star system.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• However, there is another way to find this binary star system, in the constellation of Virgo, at this time of year.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• The outburst came from a strange array of cooler molecules, not the helium and hydrogen spewed by binary stars.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2023
• The alternative is a process similar to that which creates a binary star system.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• Oh, this is too cool: scientists have found a planet orbiting a binary star (a pair of stars in tight orbit around each other) that is at the right distance to have liquid water!
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2012
• An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• But prose and poetry, although often portrayed as binary stars exerting equal force, are in fact more like a vast planet and its tiny, clinging moon.
  — David Orr, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• Aldebaran is actually a binary star system comprising an orange giant and a red dwarf star, though the latter is way too faint to see.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
• When the binary star system disappears, one single star will remain.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
• The second part of Jim's guiding binary star: He's obsessed with the notion of driving a competition car to the world's most demanding races, competing, then driving the same car home.
  — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2020
• But four months of observations revealed the star system might not be an ordinary binary star system.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2020
• At times, neutron stars are born as a pair in binary star systems when one celestial object orbits another.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021
• De Mink, who models the evolution of black-hole pairs from binary star systems, says that accounting for the interlopers will be challenging.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 28 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025