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This artist conception shows a binary-star, or two-star, system, called HD 113766, where astronomers suspect a rocky...
This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars....
This artist concept illustrates an imminent planetary collision around a pair of double stars. NASA Spitzer Space...
The third closest star system to the sun, called WISE J104915.57-531906, center of large image, which was taken by...
This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars....
Two young binary stars may be the source of mysterious clock-like bursts of light from an object called LRLL 54361...
This image is one of six images taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, showing that tight-knit twin, or binary stars...
This enhanced image from the far-ultraviolet detector on NASA Galaxy Evolution shows a ghostly shell of ionized gas...
This diagram illustrates that mature planetary systems like our own might be more common around twin, or binary,...
These four images show an artist's impression of gas accreting onto the neutron star in the binary system MXB...
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have revealed that mature planetary systems -- dusty disks of...
This artist's concept shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and...
This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space....
Two stars shine through the centre of a ring of cascading dust in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
This is an artist's impression of supernova 1993J, an exploding star in the galaxy M81 whose light reached us 21...
This composite image contains data from Chandra (purple) that provides evidence for the survival of a companion star...
This composite image contains data from Chandra (purple) that provides evidence for the survival of a companion star...
This is one artist's concept of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons mission....
The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. Bipolar planetary nebulae are...
This graphic shows the relative size of the Sun, upper left, compared to the two stars in the binary system known as...
In 1986, NASA introduced a Shuttle-borne ultraviolet observatory called Astro. The Astro Observatory was designed to...
Hubble rocks out with heavy metal stars! This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to...
This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The stars...
This photograph was taken during the integration of the Astro-1 mission payloads at the Kennedy Space Center on...