Fires — and recent floods — are often our frightening nearby companions. (moretimeatthetable.com)
Theories predict that most stars arise in groups, so astronomers expected the apparently juvenile Beta Pic to have nearby companions hatched from the same gaseous nursery. (sciencemag.org)
One possibility is that interactions with a nearby companion in a binary star caused SDSS J124043.01 +671034.68 to bare its oxygen envelope. (sciencedaily.com)