binary star

English

Noun

binary star (plural binary stars)

1. (astronomy) A stellar system in which two stars orbit around their center of mass; double star.

Synonyms

• binary, binary star system, binary system, double star, double star system

Translations

stellar system in which two stars orbit their center of mass

• Afrikaans: dubbelster
• Armenian: կրկնակի աստղ f (krknaki astġ)
• Asturian: estrella binaria f
• Basque: izar bitar
• Bulgarian: двойна звезда f (dvojna zvezda)
• Catalan: estrella binària
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聯星 / 联星 (zh)

• Czech: dvojhvězda (cs)
• Danish: dobbeltstjerne
• Dutch: dubbelster (nl) f
• Estonian: kaksiktäht
• Finnish: kaksoistähti (fi)
• French: étoile binaire (fr)
• Galician: estrela binaria (gl) f
• German: Doppelstern (de) m
• Greek: διπλός αστέρας m (diplós astéras)
• Gujarati: દ્વિસંગી તારો (dvisaṅgī tāro)
• Hebrew: כוכב כפול (he)
• Hindi: द्वितारा (dvitārā)
• Hungarian: kettőscsillag (hu)
• Icelandic: tvístirni (is)
• Ido: duopla stelo
• Indonesian: bintang biner
• Irish: déréalta f
• Italian: stella binaria f
• Japanese: 連星 (ja) (れんせい, rensei)
• Kazakh: қосаржұлдыз (qosarjūldyz)
• Korean: 쌍성 (ssangseong)
• Kyrgyz: кош жылдыз (koş jıldız)
• Lithuanian: dvinarė žvaigždė f
• Luxembourgish: Duebelstär m
• Macedonian: двојна ѕвезда f (dvojna dzvezda)
• Malay: bintang ganda
• Malayalam: ദ്വന്ദ്വനക്ഷത്രം (dvandvanakṣatraṁ)
• Maori: whetū punarua
• Norwegian: dobbeltstjerne (no)
• Persian: ستاره دوگانه (fa)
• Polish: gwiazda podwójna f
• Portuguese: estrela binária f
• Punjabi: ਦੋਹਰਾ ਤਾਰਾ (dohrā tārā)
• Romanian: stea binară f
• Russian: бина́рная звёздная систе́ма f (binárnaja zvjózdnaja sistéma), бина́рная звезда́ f (binárnaja zvezdá), двойна́я звезда́ (ru) f (dvojnája zvezdá)
• Serbo-Croatian: двојна звезда f, dvojna zvezda f, бинарна звезда f, binarna zvezda f
• Slovak: dvojhviezda f
• Spanish: estrella binaria (es) f
• Swedish: dubbelstjärna (sv)
• Tamil: இரும விண்மீன் (ta) (iruma viṇmīṉ)
• Thai: ระบบดาวคู่
• Turkish: çift yıldız (tr)
• Vietnamese: sao đôi

See also

• multiple star
• multiple star system
• single star
• single star system
• star system
• trinary star
• triple star system

Further reading

• binary star on Wikipedia.Wikipedia