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Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...
Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.
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Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.
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