The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

An artist’s rendition of the binary star system, called CPD-29 2176. Illustration: Noir Lab The universe has no shortage of oddities, and researchers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab have ...

🛍️ 100+ early Prime Day deals. Get shopping now. 🛍️ This unusual system 'shouldn't exist,' says one astronomer, who notes the orbit is as long as his daily commute. By Briley Lewis Published Aug 8, ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

Astronomers from Australia and Serbia have performed multi-band photometric observations of a binary star known as V717 ...

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