Artist's impression of a terrestrial planet being captured by a twin star. Credit: intouchable, OPENVERSE Data, at the end of the day, is our first and last source of understanding. We look, build models to match what we see, predict things we haven’t seen yet, and then ]take more data to confirm those models. Sometimes, the model is as simple as two stars born out of the same cloud of material should have the same composition. New data shows us that in 8% of the binary stars in a 91-binary system survey, that isn’t so. In these systems that just have to be different, researchers found...
It’s a Star-Eat-Planet Universe Out There
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