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Observations using radio telescopes helped researchers to understand that SVS 13 is a binary star system

Astronomers have observed SVS 13, a binary star system with a protoplanetary disk around each star, and a third disk around both.

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Dallas looked solid coming out of the All Star break, but couldn’t hold it together in crunch time.

Not only humans try to look younger than they really are – stars do, too. This is what an international team of astronomers investigates in their paper that was just published in Nature Astronomy. 

The open cluster M67 hosts a number of so-called blue stragglers, stars that spin far faster than expected. New research suggests the stars got a spin boost by absorbing gas from a dying partner star. Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

A group of Indian and international scientists have spotted a peculiar binary star that shows heartbeat but no pulsations, contrary to the norm of binary stars sporting both heartbeats as well as pulsations. This star is called HD73619 in Praesepe (M44), located in the Cancer constellation, one of the closest open star clusters to the Earth.

The world’s most famous dimming star is KIC 8462852, better known as “Tabby’s Star” for Tabetha S. Boyajian, the astronomer whose scientific paper in 2015 revealed its peculiar propensity for dimming and glowing at irregular intervals. Speculation on causes for the dimmings ranged from dust rings to planetary debris to a second smaller binary star... Read more »

The giant planet, named b Centauri (AB) b or b Centauri b, is located approximately 325 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation.

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