Sentences with phrase «closely orbiting pair»
The stellar system closest to Earth consists of three stars: the closely orbiting pair of Alpha Centauri A and B, and an outlier called Proxima Centauri.
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A U.S. - British team has found a closely orbiting pair of twin stars in the Orion Nebula, where one star is hundreds of thousands of years older than the other.
Not exact matches
In 2010, a pair of closely orbiting binary stars was spotted surrounded by what could be the debris of former planets.
The VLA data were used to track the orbit of the smaller Southern star around the larger Southern object, presumed to be a pair of stars orbiting each other closely.