Science news articles about 'double star systems'

... brightening of a small, dense star. Novae occur in double star systems comprising a white ... shell of matter that has fallen onto the ingesting star becomes unstable, leading to a thermonuclear explosion ...

Astronomers have caught their sharpest look of a double star system in the Orion nebula.

... . How does nature manage to be so green?" It has long been theorized that millisecond pulsars are created in double-star systems when matter from the companion star falls into the pulsar's gravity ...

... determine the distance and intrinsic brightness of the outbursting object. It appears that this double star system is a prime candidate to be one of the long-sought progenitors of the exploding stars ...

... of kilometres apart to form a single coordinated system. Dr Tzioumis, Dr Chris Phillips and ... are small or very distant (such as nearby double-star systems or black holes in the distant universe) and ...

... to do a four-year study of a double-star system unlike any other known in the Universe. ... at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In addition, the stars' orbital plane is aligned nearly perfectly with ...

... name of Gum 29, is now available. In the center, a small cluster of stars -- called Westerlund 2 -- has been found to be the home of one of the most massive double star systems known to astronomers.

... data have allowed us to imagine the appearance of the star before, but it is quite astounding that we can now see it ... is another VLTI image showing the double star system Theta1 Orionis C in the Orion ...

Astronomers have discovered a unique double-star system that represents a "missing link" stage in what ... amount of matter falling onto the neutron star decreased and stopped, the radio waves could emerge ...