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companion star
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That’s because, when the companion star removes the massive star’s envelope, the helium core shrinks.
New calculations indicate that a massive star whose outer layer gets torn off by a companion star ends up shedding a lot more carbon than if the star had been born a loner.
From this, we established how many of stars contained more planetary material than their companion star.
Salisbury writes that the “dog star” Sirius, for example, is the brightest star in the sky not only because of its relatively close proximity to earth but because of the presence of a companion star, or “pup,” that boosts its shine.
Then, astronomers realized that old pulsars can “spin-up” by siphoning mass from a companion star, and flash every one to 10 milliseconds.
"Except that we saw that companion star when we stopped back there, half an hour ago," said Fuller.
This change of brightness is due to the presence of a companion star.
The companion star is a faint white star of the ninth magnitude.
This remarkable variable has a dark companion star revolving near it obscuring its light in part from us at stated intervals.
The faint white companion star formed with these three suns a system of four suns revolving about a common center of gravity.
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