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A companion star is a star that is in a close orbit around another star, forming a binary star system. Both stars can affect each other through gravitational interaction and can have various types of relationships, such as sharing material between them or influencing each other's evolution and lifespan.
Eta Carinae is a massive binary star system located in the Carina constellation. It consists of two massive stars, with the primary star being a blue hypergiant and the companion likely a massive hot star. These stars are surrounded by a dense nebula of gas and dust.
Antares (Alpha Scorpii) is a huge red hypergiant star, with a radius 800 times that of our own sun. There are some bigger stars though, such as Betelgeuse (1180 solar radii) and V354 Cephei (1520 solar radii), but the biggest known star is VY Canis Majoris, which is estimated to have a diameter between 1800 and 2100 times that of our own sun. If it were in the centre of our solar system its edges would almost reach the orbit of Saturn.
Most visual binary stars are of low luminosity because they are often close together and both stars have similar masses, resulting in them being fainter than single stars of the same age. Additionally, the companion stars in these binary systems may not be large or hot enough to emit high levels of light.
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It is possible that the Sun had a companion star, and that the two became separated due to interactions of other nearby stars.
It is estimated that about half of the stars in our galaxy are single stars, meaning they do not have a companion star that they orbit around. The other half of stars exist in multiple star systems where two or more stars are gravitationally bound together.
There have been no movie stars who have won the Companion of the Order of Australia. The awards is given to those who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and service.
No. Only the one. We call it the Sun.
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A companion star is a star that is in a close orbit around another star, forming a binary star system. Both stars can affect each other through gravitational interaction and can have various types of relationships, such as sharing material between them or influencing each other's evolution and lifespan.
A multiple star system consists of three or more stars.
Tags with companions are called companion tags. An example is <b></b>. The companion tag is the tag that turns off the effect set my the starting tag.
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Bruce Collum has written: '[Do some X-ray stars have white dwarf companions]' -- subject(s): White dwarf stars, Companion stars, Extreme ultraviolet radiation, X ray stars, B stars
Such a system is a multiple-star system. If it contains exactly two stars then it is called a binary system.