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Two stars, one orbit, zero chance of either admitting who revolves around whom.
means Two stars bound together by gravity, orbiting a common center of mass — which from Earth often looks like a single point of light.
from Straightforward compound: 'binary,' from Latin binarius ('consisting of two'), itself from bini ('two together'), joined to 'star.' The astronomical term dates to the study of stars that appeared single to the naked eye but revealed themselves, under telescope or spectroscope, as paired — William Herschel's late-18th-century observations of such 'double stars' helped establish that some were true gravitational pairs rather than chance alignments.
- majority rule
- most stars in the galaxy have a companion, not solo
- our sun
- single star systems are the actual oddballs
- eventual fate
- some merge, collide, or feed into supernovae
- sky trick
- can look like one star without a telescope