News articles tagged with 'binary'
International study shows some asteroids live in own little worlds
— 26 Aug 2010 09:49 | AstronomyWhile the common perception of asteroids is that they are giant rocks lumbering about in orbit, a new study shows they actually are constantly changing 'little worlds' that can give…
Research sheds light on early star formation
— 10 Jul 2009 15:33 | AstronomyResearch by a Michigan State University scientist sheds new light on how stars and galaxies were formed back in the early days of the universe - some 13 billion years ago…
Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
— 11 Jun 2009 12:53 | AstronomyAstronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimetre Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting…
Binary black hole system identified
— 4 Mar 2009 18:00 | AstronomyAstronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson have found what looks like two massive black holes orbiting each other in the centre of one galaxy. It has been…
Even stars get fat
— 24 Jan 2009 16:52 | AstronomyResearchers have discovered evidence that blue stragglers in globular clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars.…
Jupiter-like planets could form around twin suns
— 6 Jan 2009 11:22 | AstronomyLife on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field. In a paper published in the December 2008 issue of Astronomy…
Astrophysicists 'weigh' galaxy's most massive star
— 19 Sep 2008 18:10 | AstronomyTheoretical models of stellar formation propose the existence of very massive stars that can attain up to 150 times the mass of our Sun. Until very recently, however, no scientist had…
Research puts solar spin on asteroids, their moons and Earth impacts
— 9 Jul 2008 17:00 | AstronomyAsteroids with moons, which scientists call binary asteroids, are common in the solar system. A longstanding question has been how the majority of such moons are formed. In this week's…
Two new star systems are first of their kind ever found
— 1 Apr 2008 17:34 | AstronomyAstronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind - until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home. In a paper…
New X-ray source in nearby galaxy Centaurus A spawns mystery
— 9 Jan 2008 16:30 | AstronomyAstronomers studying a nearby galaxy have spied a rare type of star system - one that contains a black hole that suddenly began glowing brightly with X-rays. Though this type of star…