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 project presents more than 10,000 of these rare pairs – 10,001 to be precise. These objects will help future researchers study […]
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Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Binary Stars, Citizen Science, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
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June 26, 2025
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