Astronomers have obtained new information about the formation of planets around twin stars orbiting each other. Although we are familiar with planets orbiting a single central star (similar to the arrangement of our solar system), more than 50% of the stars in the universe are found in binary systems, meaning they have a companion star.… Read More »
What happened after the thermonuclear explosion? binary star System observed approximately 3,400 light-years away Hubble space telescope. HM Sagittae, or HM Sge for short, is a system known as the symbiotic system. white dwarf feeding on a friend red giant star. The stolen material forms an accretion disk orbiting the white dwarf. If too much… Read More »
Star Wars fans will certainly enjoy the binary star systems, nicknamed the “Tatooine” systems, a reference to the planet on which Luke Skywalker stood to gaze at the twin suns in Star Wars: A New Hope. It turns out that some planets in real-life versions of these systems may also be receiving a much more… Read More »