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Recent Examples of binary star
Now, the researchers said their findings prove that young binary stars also have the potential to form in such harsh conditions.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
When the binary star system disappears, one single star will remain.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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
An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
When the binary star system disappears, one single star will remain.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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
An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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For example, the current model of airspace allocation, based on decades-old frameworks, contrasts sharply with the potential for drone corridors that could populate the skies with the density of a neutron star (OK, slight exaggeration).Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Previously, skepticism surrounded the possibility of a radio burst escaping the intense environment of a magnetar, a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field.Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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This region, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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The most famous of these are Type Ia supernovas, in which the white dwarf is obliterated in a runaway thermonuclear explosion after stolen stellar material piles up on its surface (though there are rare events called Type Iax supernovas, in which the white dwarf lives on as a wrecked zombie star).Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away from Earth, the Blaze Star is a binary system in which a white dwarf, the core remains of a dying star, accumulates material from its neighboring red giant star.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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As these emergency travelers make short-notice decisions on when to go, where to stay and when to return, hoteliers are juggling more variables than usual.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Health equity requires a broader approach — one that recognizes and acts on the importance of real life variables like access to nutritious food, stable housing, and transportation.Ann Marie P. Mauro, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
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