New Habitable Zone Planet Found in Unusual Star System
The newly discovered planet, identified by volunteer planet hunters and confirmed by scientists at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues, has an exceptionally long orbit….
Binary Star News
Binary stars are systems consisting of two stars that orbit around a common center of mass, bound together by their gravitational forces. These systems are quite common in the universe and are a key focus in the study of stellar dynamics. Binary stars can be detected in several ways, including visually through telescopes, by noting the Doppler shifts caused by their motion around each other, or by observing the dips in light as one star eclipses another in eclipsing binaries. The dynamics within binary star systems have significant implications for our understanding of stellar mass, the evolution of stars, and the properties of stars that are not easily observable as individuals. Moreover, binary systems can include combinations of various types of stars, such as main sequence stars, giants, and even compact objects like white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes, leading to phenomena such as X-ray emissions and gravitational waves when involving the latter categories.
Unprecedented Discovery: Astronomers Discover Primordial Differences in Binary Stars
Astronomers have verified that variations in the chemical makeup of binary stars originate from the initial phases of their formation. Recent research using the Gemini…
Echoes Across Space: The Universal Sound of Black Holes
Mysterious and inescapable, black holes rank among the most extraordinary entities in the universe. Scientists at HITS, Germany, have predicted that the ‘chirp’ noise generated…
Unveiling the Magnetic Mysteries of Black Holes: How Does “MAD” Accretion Form Around a Black Hole?
For the first time, a global team of scientists has uncovered the magnetic field transport processes in the accretion flow of a black hole, as well…
Spider Pulsars’ Missing Link Found – Astronomers Validate Longstanding Theory
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with their international partners, used the Five-hundred-meter Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to identify…
“Amazing” – Astrophysicists Have Identified the Shortest-Period, Low-Mass Stellar Binary System Ever Observed
Astrophysicists from Northwestern University and the University of California San Diego have identified the tightest binary system ever observed among ultracool dwarfs. The two stars…
The Seven-Year Photobomb: Astronomers Discover Source of Distant Star’s Unusual Dimming
By their own admission, Anastasios “Andy” Tzanidakis and James Davenport are interested in unusual stars. The University of Washington astronomers were searching for “stars behaving…
New Research Shows That Something Strange Is Going On in the Butterfly Nebula
Planetary nebulae are formed when red giant stars reach the end of their helium fuel supply and eject their outer layers, becoming hot and dense…
The Black Hole Puzzle: Piecing Together the Origins of Invisible Giants
Researchers say that current measurements of black holes are insufficient to determine the formation process of these invisible giants in the universe. The way a…
Baffling “Spiderweb” Star Discovered – Is It an Alien Megastructure?
A puzzling image captured by the James Webb Telescope explained. A strange image of the distant star WR140 surrounded by concentric geometric ripples captured by…
Harvard Astrophysicists Reveal the Origin of Binary Stars
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have concluded from a systematic study of very young cores that most embryonic stars form in multiple systems,…
CfA Astronomers Find a Black Hole in a Low Mass X-Ray Binary
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail the discovery of what might be the first LMXB whose compact object is a…
Astronomers Discover a New Class of Binary Stars
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a new class of binary stars; one star is fully formed while the other is still…
Researchers Reveal New Method for Studying Binary Star Systems
Using data from the Kepler spacecraft, researchers from the University of Washington confirm the first “self-lensing” binary star system. What looked at first like a…
Researchers Model the Workings of an X-ray Binary Star
Using ten years’ worth of optical, infrared, and X-ray data on LMC X-3, astronomers developed a model that can successfully explain the workings of an…
Runaway Binary LP 400-22 is Leaving the Galaxy
A new study examines runaway binary LP400-22, providing key insights into runaway stars, white-dwarf binaries, and the complex interactions going on in dense stellar clusters….
Unusual Protostar Periodically Emits Infrared Light Bursts
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers observed an unusual protostar that periodically emits infrared light bursts, becoming 10 times brighter every 25.34 days,…
Red Novae Help Explain the Secret Life of Binary Stars
A newly published study from the University of Alberta examines what happens when binary stars come together in a common envelope, provides a way to…