binary star system

JWST captures lightyear-wide dust rings around dying binary star

Over a century of time is written across the sky.

By Cassidy Ward 7 months ago

A baby binary star may be forming three different planetary systems around it

SVS 13 is a binary star overachiever.

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

Zombie parasite stars are eating other stars alive

It's a star-eat-star universe out there. 

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago

Tatooine has nothing on the 97 quadruple star systems TESS just found

…and it nearly doubles the number of known quadruple systems.

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago

Planets might still be able to crawl out of dying stars

It's not zombification, but it kind of is.

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago

Binary pulsar puts Einstein to the test… and he passes. Relatively speaking.

Whirling neutron stars make an excellent physics lab.

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

Two zombie stars are eating their companions and creating cosmic chaos

White dwarfs can eat planets and stars and blast out VAST amounts of energy.

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

Just how many stars *is* Albireo, and is one of them a black hole?

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

The Sun is surrounded by millions of binary stars!

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

The weirdest binary: Planet and not-a-star barely orbit each other

By Phil Plait 2 years ago