How do close binary stars form?
Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers throughout the galaxy. But roughly half of sun-like stars are locked in with more than one companion star. If there are two, it's known as a "binary" system, but in many cases th...
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Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers throughout the galaxy. But roughly half of sun-like stars are locked in with more than one companion star. If there are two, it's known as a "binary" system, but in many cases there are even more stars all collectively tied together by gravity.
Originally published at Phys.org
