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Can stars orbit around each other?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Yes, and when they do so they are called binary stars

(see wiki: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_star)

basically the two masses are attracted by each others' gravitational fields and orbit each other.

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