The new technique depends on disturbances in the material being fed from one star to another as a third body orbits a binary pair. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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Scientists have discovered a pair of stars locked in an incredibly close orbit that circle each other once every 51 minutes - and according to the results of a new study, they are only going to speed ...

Photo Caption: An artist’s conception of EF Eri during a time when there is mass accretion from the donor star to the white dwarf. The region where the thin gas stream breaks up into many filaments is ...

Feeding frenzy: artist’s illustration of a cataclysmic variable with a white dwarf (right) feeding upon a Sun-like donor star. (Courtesy: M Weiss/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian) ...

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Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have observed a new type of binary star that has long been theorized to exist. The discovery finally confirms how a rare type of star ...

Can a pair of stars have a toxic relationship? Consider this as you get to know the newly discovered star system ZTF J1813+4251, a tight-knit stellar couple with such tyrannical control over one ...

With the aid of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered an erupting cataclysmic variable star in a rarely seen ...

Astronomers have discovered a stellar binary, or pair of stars, with an extremely short orbit, appearing to circle each other every 51 minutes. The system seems to be one of a rare class of binaries ...

Dwarf novae are a prominent subclass of cataclysmic variables; binary star systems in which a white dwarf accretes matter from a donor star. This accretion process drives episodic outbursts due to ...