Visual Binary Stars
Abstract
Already since the early development of telescopes, an increasing number of stars—single to the naked eye—were found to consist of two or more components. They became known as `double stars' (étoiles doubles, dvoinye zvozdy, Doppelsterne) and soon were too numerous to be explained as random pairings of stars in the sky. With increasing observing-time span, some pairs showed around 1800 that the co...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/2855
- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE2855H
- Keywords:
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- Stars;
- Binary Stars