When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other's light each time it swings around, that's an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA's Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

There's a demon in the early-morning sky, amid the stars of Perseus the Hero. Second-magnitude Algol (Beta Persei) is also ...

Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned ...

Two Yellow Supergiant Eclipsing Binary Systems Discovered: First Of Their Kind Ever Found. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 03 / 080331135542.htm ...

The bright star Algol, in the constellation Perseus about 93 light years away, ... But “Algol is a very important system to study because it is the first eclipsing binary discovered, ...

As astronomer Otto Struve wrote in 1962, “The history of the eclipsing binary Epsilon Aurigae is in many respects the history of astrophysics.” And now that history is about to get a new chapter.

A binary system emits light that is the combined light output, ... Eclipsing binaries can also fit into the two previously mentioned categories and are often so close together that they exchange ...

Over the summer, we will have preliminary results for around 150,000 eclipsing binary light curves, and we will invest a few months to analyze and interpret these data thoroughly," Prša concluded.

"Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system" is astronomer-speak for a system with six stars all orbiting each other and all regularly eclipsing one another from the perspective of Earth — and ...