The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

A research team has used both archival Hubble Space Telescope data and new observations to precisely measure the binary star system NGC3603-A1. One star weighs about 93 times the mass of our sun, ...

Astrophysicist Tomoaki Matsumoto and collaborators have used three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic supercomputer simulations ...

NAOJ ATERUI III simulations show magnetic fields strip angular momentum from forming protostar pairs at up to 0.7 percent per orbital period, explaining why binary systems form fast enough to match ...

For many years, binary star research was as neglected as an old Tamagotchi. Not anymore. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some 90s ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer simulations show that magnetic fields surrounding newborn stars can act ...

Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, NASA announced in June. The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...