Article: Tidal Evolution and Oscillations in Binary Stars: Third Granada Workshop on Stellar Structure: Proceedings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Even stars get fat.(stellar cannibalism in binary ...
The Science Teacher;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... are the result of "stellar cannibalism" in binary stars. In other words, binary stars are eating each other and turning into a blue ... cluster's core, and hence the number of binary stars. This points to "stellar cannibalism" as ...

Article: Light curves of short period eclipsing binary ...
Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science;  April 1, 2002 ;     590 words ...The periods for many Algol eclipsing binary stars, two stars orbiting each other, have not been updated since 1950. Analysis of the light curves of the eclipsing binary stars can determine a more accurate period for the star system. This research ...

Article: X-rays from dim space hint at a black hole. (called Nova Persei ...
Science News;  September 12, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... now suggests that the object belongs to a special class of binary stars likely to contain a small black hole. Variously dubbed Nova ... minimum value a star must have to become a black hole. Two binary stars that recently unleashed an outburst of radiation - Nova Muscae ...

Dictionary definition: binary stars
A Dictionary of Physics;      307 words ...binary stars A pair of stars revolving about a common centre of mass. In a visual binary the stars are far enough apart to be seen separately ...

Article: INTERACTIVE BINARY STARS SHOW SIGNS OF INDUCED ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Indiana University issued the following news release: Astronomers studying highly energetic binary stars called polars have obtained the first observational evidence that the intense magnetic fields produced by the white dwarf half ...

Article: ASTRONOMY: Evidence found for binary stars
The Independent - London;  March 6, 1997 ;     356 words ...Cinemagoers have known since Star Wars that planets can orbit around double, or "binary" stars: Luke Skywalker's home planet has a double sunset. Now astronomers have caught up. Today, in the science journal Nature they ...

Article: Binary stars are soon set to shine.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  February 26, 1998 ;     689 words ...What's all this then? SPACE's Tommy Scott and CATATONIA's Cerys Matthews turning into the next Kylie & Jason? Pop pundits are predicting that the link-up will help amiable Scousers Space notch up their biggest hit to date with the Ballad Of Tom Jones. Described as an inspired pairing, the duo