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#40 Binary stars. Would you believe that most of the stars we see aren't just single stars? Incredible I know!


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As many as 80% of the stars we see in the night sky could be part of a binary system, two or more stars orbiting each other.
So what it a binary system and how can we observe them? We know single stars like our own sun can have a system of planets, but what does that look like for stars in a binary system.

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