Science news articles about 'binary star system'

Disk of gas and dust found around nearby, young binary star system.

... Array on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to make the observations. A binary star system consists of two ... Space Telescope, but the other disk was hidden in the glare of the star. Hubble saw only the disk shadow, so ...

... new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows ... matter – primarily hydrogen – falls onto a star and accumulates in a shell that can flare up as brief thermonuclear ...

Rare glimpse of planet formation in binary star system

... (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. researchers ...

... like) planet formation around the binary star system," says Kastner, professor at Rochester Institute ... gaseous disks that we see around single stars, that it's a real link between planets forming around ...

Relationships between globular cluster mass and number of binary star systems points to stellar cannibalism as source of 'blue stragglers'.

... events is apparently what happened with a binary-star system some 4000 light-years from Earth. ... episode during which material pulled from the companion star formed an accretion disk around the neutron ...

... Ohio State, applied a direct measurement technique in 2006, when he used the light emerging from a binary star system in the galaxy M33 to measure the distance to that galaxy for the first time. M33 ...

... -like planet formation around the binary star system," Kastner says. "The SMA images showing ... noxious circumstellar gas cloud. "In this case the stars are so close together, and the profile of the gas ...

... nuclei, gamma-ray bursts and some binary star systems are known to produce photons exceeding ... makes it possible for us to pinpoint neutron stars," said Eric Grove, astrophysicist and LAT Commissioner ...