It’s nothing sinister but certainly an oddity in the night sky. Astronomically, Algol is an eclipsing binary star. It’s two stars revolving around each other in a very tight orbit, one a ...

Death by black hole isn't always inevitable for stars that exist in binary systems with one of these cosmic titans. There may be a way for small stars in such systems to dodge their expected fates ...

The first day of December starts with a new moon. The waxing crescent moon is below Venus on Dec. 4. The waxing crescent ...

Friday, November 29Pegasus the Winged Horse might be the most well-known horse-themed star pattern in the sky, but he is not ...

Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass binary consisting of a compact object (likely a black hole) and a hot Wolf-Rayet star. This artist’s concept shows one interpretation of the system. High-resolution X-ray ...

Credit: Hurley-Walker et al Surprisingly, the evidence pointed to an unassuming binary star system consisting of a red dwarf (or M dwarf) with a companion, most likely a white dwarf. Red dwarfs ...

Using various telescopes, an international team of astronomers has conducted a comprehensive study of a double-lined spectroscopic binary known ... lines from both stars are visible, and these ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion ...

"Binary stars play a huge role in our universe," says lead author Steffani Grondin, a graduate student in the David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy & Astrophysics at U of T.

Oppenheimer actor Nick Dumont has just come out as transmasculine and non-binary and has shared their new pronouns online, with many people asking what the meaning of the term is. “They identity as a ...

Oppenheimer star Emma Dumont has come out as trans masculine and non-binary and revealed the new name their family is calling them by. The star, 30, made the revelation on their Instagram ...