#binary system

[quiltofstars]

Sirius, α Canis Majoris // Wagner

Sirius (α Canis Majoris) is the brightest star in the night sky being one of Earth's closest neighbors at only 8.6 light years away. Although it appears solitary, it is actually a binary system: one star is a blue-white giant star and the other is a comparatively dim white dwarf.

The giant star is about twice the mass and size of the Sun, while the white dwarf is about the same mass as the Sun, but only about 90% the size of Earth!

The name Sirius comes from the Ancient Greek word Σείριος meaning "glowing" or "scorcher".

[celestialdaily]

The celestial object of the day is Spica!

The brightest star in the constellation of Virgo is actually a binary system! And the closest to the sun. It's formed by a blue giant and a variable star, they orbit so close together that they've gained an ellipsodal shape, similar to that of an egg

[chaoticrei]

Hello everyone, this is just a friendly reminder that, since there is no binary system, I don't see why we should want a body which is the expression of it. For example: I don't want to be neither a girl nor a boy, so why should my body be female or male? And also remember that there is no trinary system either. It's not: male, female, nonbinary. There are people who feel like both male and female, people who feel partly female/male and partly nonbinary and so on. There are people who don't care about fitting in your stupid boxes, because it's not about cis or not cis. Gender is a spectrum, don't act like giving three options is inclusive, because it's not. It's a step in the right direction and I appreciate it, but remember that gender doesn't work like that.

[ars--synthetica]

Steel Jaws Speak No Evil

I've ported my ongoing writing project over to twine! It's got everything previous (Part 1: Binary System, Part 2: LOYALTY) and the first chapter of Part 3: Faith along with interactive elements and audio!

It is, as always, totally free. Runs right in browser.

Read it on itch.io

[kiraprismart]

Heyo so starting off 2025 with a brand new character(s) (sort of)

Alternate universe versions of Prism and Chrome as part of a binary plural system (collectively named the "Glow System"), both working as soldiers working under a subdivision of a government-system international threat response named D-FEND, in which the division they're under is called The Breakouts, a group of the highest-class youthful soldiers!

Prism - The more excitable and emotional of the two members, and also is the Host of the system, being the main fronter for the vessel. He is an age slider, usually shifting between ages 15 to 20. They're also the more of the risk-taker of the two, often relying on luck and oppurtunity to succeed in missions.

Chrome - The more emotionally stunted and collected member. He takes the role of the Protector, usually taking over when someone tries to belittle or hurt Prism, whether physically or emotionally. His age is also a constant, at 20 year old. Being more knowledgable and tactical, he is much more precise and careful with his every action.

While the two are prone to slight disagreements with methods and morals, generally, the two operate rather smoothly together, with healthy amounts of communication, often either about missions or something as mundane as meals or activities. They're also able to communicate about information that the other has received, so the two are always relatively up to date about current situations.

[th3-0bjectivist]

“The Cluster” - Animated painting

[blasteffect]

ASKAP J1935+2148 !

The discovery of ASKAP J1935+2148, a radio transient with a 53.8-minute period and variable emissions, hints at unexplored celestial phenomena, possibly involving a neutron star or a white dwarf in a binary system.

Credit: SciTechDaily.com

[fourphoenixfeathers]

No I didn't finish this painting a month ago and forget to post it why would you think that

[nomansskye]

[madamearithmetica]

Circles, circles everywhere. In art, chapels, human flesh. A perfect shape, one tripels its value, now there’s three. But number 3 in binary system is 11? According to Theodicee, we are two, and our daughter seems to not exist in the binary world.

[rozpacz-siedem]

some drawings of dwarves i made recently 🌠🌔

[yamimichi]

Mysterious flares in the sky brighter than a trillion suns are actually the glow from two distant black holes circling one another, astronomers confirmed in new observations that solve a decades-old mystery. 

New research finds that galaxy OJ 287, which sits 5 billion light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cancer, is anchored by two black holes, one supermassive and one smaller. Though these two black holes look like one dot on telescope imagery, they send out different kinds of electromagnetic signals, allowing astronomers to untangle their respective identities. 

The galaxy was discovered in 1888, and astronomers have suspected for decades that it might be a binary system, with two black holes at its core. The galaxy shows a pattern of emissions that vary on two separate cycles, one 12 years long and the other 55 years long, suggesting two separate types of motion are occurring —  one, the orbit of a black hole around another; the other, the slow change in the orientation of that orbit.

[carelle-matic]

This is the Solar System that Valmat resides in. Valmat is where all my D&D characters are from!

[whats-in-a-sentence]

(However, there is compelling, indirect evidence for gravitational waves.⁴)

4. In 1974, Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered a binary pulsar system – two pulsars (rapidly spinning neutron stars) orbiting one another. Because the pulsars move very quickly and are very close together, Einstein's general relativity predicts that they will emit copious amounts of gravitational radiation. Although it is quite a challenge to detect this radiation directly, general relativity shows that the radiation should reveal itself instructor through other means: the energy emitted via the radiation should cause the orbital period of the two pulsars to gradually decrease. The pulsars have been observed continuously since their discovery, and indeed, their orbital period has decreased – and in a manner that agrees with the prediction of general relativity to about one part in a thousand. Thus, even without direct detection of the emitted gravitational radiation, this provides strong evidence for its existence. For their discovery, Hulse and Taylor were awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[kiraprismart]

so i also gave glow a roomba companion

here's a basic rundown of its functions

[qupritsuvwix]

https://www.reuters.com/science/three-decades-later-first-brown-dwarf-ever-found-offers-surprise-2024-10-18/