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On Wednesday, Dr. Welsh and his colleagues announced that they have confirmed the existence of two more worlds in distinctive double-star solar systems in the constellation Cygnus.
An Otherworldly Discovery: Billions of Other Planets Robert Lee Hotz 2012
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Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September—Kepler-16b, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
An Otherworldly Discovery: Billions of Other Planets Robert Lee Hotz 2012
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In addition, they now believe there may be similar magnetic features in other double-star systems.
Giant Magnetic Loop Stretches Between Two Stars | Universe Today 2010
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"" Now known to have survived emergency reentry and subsequent vessel crash on double-star system M-344/G.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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Tanith was a beautiful world and, apart from its strange orbit around a double-star system, could have been the twin of Thanet.
Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003
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• To find your personal goal make a list of everything you wish to do, be or have, then star and double-star choices that are still possible in order of their importance to you.
Living Alone and Loving It Barbara Feldon 2003
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Somehow, he didn't mind taking one more look at the double-star system.
Next Door, Next World Robert Donald Locke
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They may be the complex motions of double-star orbits, or the results of the impact of various projectiles on the tranquil surface of
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Since then he has become a double-star actor in a wider field, There are those who insist that he is an ill-starred actor in a general way; but as he has left the country, we can leave those who regard his absence as a good riddance of bad rubbish, and those who call it a Madriddance of good rubbish, to discuss his merits at their leisure.
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The two Herschels between them discovered some thousands of these close multiple systems; Struve and others increased the list to above ten thousand; and Mr.S. W. Burnham, of late years the most enthusiastic and successful of double-star pursuers, added a thousand new discoveries while he was still an amateur in astronomy, and by profession the stenographer of a Chicago court.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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