Astronomers have detected rare radio waves from a binary star system, challenging previous ideas about their origins. These ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time-lapsed here to show the evolution of the region. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.

Both of the stars are victims of each other’s gravity, though, eventually forming into a kilonova explosion when they collide sometime in the future. Many binary star systems see one star ...

Simulations indicate that the low-mass star in the J0453+1559 binary system could be a neutron star rather than a white dwarf. The star's mass, 1.174 M ⊙ , is unusually low for a neutron star.