'Impossible’ Binary Stars Discovered
Jul 6, 2012 9:28:51 GMT -5
Post by popcorn on Jul 6, 2012 9:28:51 GMT -5
'Impossible’ Binary Stars Discovered ???
ScienceDaily (July 5, 2012) — A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. Until now it was thought that such close-in binary stars could not exist. The new discoveries come from the telescope's Wide Field Camera (WFCAM) Transit Survey, and appear in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120705133718.htm
ScienceDaily (July 5, 2012) — A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. Until now it was thought that such close-in binary stars could not exist. The new discoveries come from the telescope's Wide Field Camera (WFCAM) Transit Survey, and appear in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120705133718.htm
