Tracking wide binaries in star clusters
Jul 16, 2020
2 minutes
“Stars that move together can be identified as cluster members, rather than interlopers that lie in the same part of the sky”
From my first sight of Albireo through a telescope, with its blue and yellow components, I’ve always been fascinated by binary stars. They’ve always seemed to me too fragile an arrangement to survive.
That instinct isn’t wrong;
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