... this nova is a planetary nebula, which must have formed during an earlier phase in the binary star's existence, when the outer layers of one of the companions were expelled. Only one previous nova has ...
Disk of gas and dust found around nearby, young binary star system.
Changes in the behavior of an odd binary star suggest a third party could crash the affair, creating a stellar light show that should be visible from Earth within decades.
... stars less than a few million years old are based on models that were calibrated with measurements of binary stars presumed to have formed simultaneously, this new discovery may cause astronomers to ...
... this conclusion is supported by preliminary observations that directly measured the abundance of binary stars in cluster cores. All of this points to "stellar cannibalism" as the primary mechanism ...
... clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars. In other words, binary stars are eating each other and turning into a blue straggler...
... Feb. 21, 2007 and Oct. 10, 2008). The binary star Theta1 Ori C is the brightest of ... unique laboratory for studying the formation process of massive stars in detail. The intense radiation of Theta1 Ori C ...
... elements other than hydrogen and helium – that are now found in newer stars don't necessarily match what ... gas was going to make the stars, it was bound together tightly enough to make binary stars."
... , the other more than 80 degrees — of the stars' rotation axes.
Next steps: The team hopes to study other unusual binary stars to try to determine how unusual this tipped-over configuration is.
... example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium ... onto its companion. White dwarfs are the remnants of stars that burned their hydrogen down to carbon and oxygen ...
Rare glimpse of planet formation in binary star system
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Masses of dust floating around a distant binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. ...
... any mass in orbit around a close binary star."
Zuckerman and colleagues first reported ... destruction of Earth by a collision with a planet of a passing star. The 1951 classic movie based on the novel ...
... (Jupiter-like) planet formation around the binary star system," says Kastner, professor at Rochester ... gaseous disks that we see around single stars, that it's a real link between planets forming around ...
See a brilliant image from Hubble, a binary star, and more in this week's space pictures.
