When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other's light each time it swings around, that's an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA's Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents more than 10,000 of these rare pairs--10,001 to be precise. These objects will help future researchers study the physics and formation of stars and search for new exoplanets.
When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other's light each time it swings around, that's an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA's Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents more than 10,000 of these rare pairs--10,001 to be precise. These objects will help future researchers study the physics and formation of stars and search for new exoplanets.
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