
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


What would our solar system be like if we had two suns? Actually, this situation could be more common than you might think, as most stars are in binary systems. If a star is in a binary pair, how does that affect its life and death? Dr. Katelyn Breivik of Carnegie Mellon University tells us all about these systems and what scientists and other curious minds can learn from them.
By Paul Duffell4.4
6666 ratings
What would our solar system be like if we had two suns? Actually, this situation could be more common than you might think, as most stars are in binary systems. If a star is in a binary pair, how does that affect its life and death? Dr. Katelyn Breivik of Carnegie Mellon University tells us all about these systems and what scientists and other curious minds can learn from them.

1,356 Listeners

321 Listeners

838 Listeners

2,882 Listeners

566 Listeners

544 Listeners

231 Listeners

4,167 Listeners

2,367 Listeners

506 Listeners

323 Listeners

883 Listeners

384 Listeners

151 Listeners

572 Listeners