This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 23:31.

Dr Ross Church is a PhD from Cambridge, and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University. I talked to him about binary stars:

– What are binary stars?

– How common are they?

– Can stars exist in triple or more systems?

– How big are most binary stars?

– How do binary stars form?

– How can we detect binary stars through observation?

– Can binary systems have planets?

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