eclipsing binary
Britishnoun
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“I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a system where two stars circle around each other and from our view eclipse each other every orbit,” Cukier said, in a statement released by NASA.
From Fox News
According to Nasa, the stars make an eclipsing binary, which occurs when the stellar companions circle each other in our plane of view.
From The Guardian
“I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a system where two stars circle around each other and from our view eclipse each other every orbit,” Cukier said, according to a Nasa press release.
From The Guardian
In reference materials, he noticed two objects suspiciously close to each other on the sky: UU Sagittae, an eclipsing binary pair discovered in 1932; and Abell 63, a planetary nebula found in 1966.
From Science Magazine
Known as an eclipsing binary variable, Algol is normally the second-brightest star in the constellation Perseus at 2.1 magnitude, which is about as bright as stars in the Big Dipper.
From National Geographic
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