The VLT is one of the most advanced ground-based observatories in the world, capable of capturing detailed images of the galactic center, where Sgr A* resides. The discovery of these binary stars ...

The object visible in the upper-right corner of this image is HOPS 150: it's a binary star system where two young protostars orbit each other. Each star has a small, dusty disk of material ...

Scientists think that the couple started off together, as a better-matched binary pair consisting of two rather big stars, six and eight times more massive than our Sun. The bigger star exhausted ...

Pairs circle around each other using different methods of travel to represent binary stars - a star system where both stars orbit around their common centre of mass. Then pairs and small groups ...