Two RFO volunteers, Sophie Qin and Rachel Freed, have submitted a research paper to the Journal of Double Star Observations (JDSO) presenting new astrometric measurements of the double star system WDS 18428+5938 — a pair of stars that have been watched by astronomers for nearly two centuries. A Star System with a Long History WDS …
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High School Students Publish Research on Double Star System WDS 22267+4433
Can two stars be gravitationally bound to each other across the void of space? Determining whether a pair of stars that appear close together in the sky are actually in orbit around each other — or merely close in our line of sight by coincidence — requires measuring their positions precisely, repeatedly, over many years. …