White dwarfs are born when stars with masses around that of the sun exhaust the hydrogen in their cores. In around 5 billion years, the sun will undergo this process, leaving a smoldering cosmic ember ...
Symbiotic binary stars frequently flicker, a phenomenon linked to accretion physics. This behavior is demonstrated by RT Cru, a hard X-ray-emitting symbiotic binary system, with variations ranging ...
It is possible that this binary star could be modulating the dust surrounding the system and when the companion is in transit, the dust leads to a reduction in brightness. If α Ori B were to be ...