Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

That's right: Astronomers suspect the two stars in D9 will soon merge into a single star because of the close-by gravity. They are estimated to be only about 2.7 million years old — for ...

The researchers estimate the newfound stars ignited just 2.7 million years ago and will ... gas and dust may instead be binary stars about to merge, like the D9 pair, or remnant material from ...

The binary stars, known as D9, are estimated to be just 2.7 million years old——remarkably ... the stars would merge into one. "This leaves some questions still open," said Anna Ciurlo, an ...

The team estimates that within one million years, the two stars will merge into one due to the gravitational influence of the black hole. “This provides only a brief window on cosmic timescales ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. When two neutron stars merge, they collapse in supernova explosions that are the brightest in the entire universe. Produced by Jenner Deal Follow BI Video ...