Star couple dance dizzying pirouette | The standard

Three thousand light-years apart, two stars orbit each other at an unusually fast speed, taking just 51 minutes to complete one revolution. And for once it is not the largest but the smallest of the star pair that guides the cosmic dance.

The twinkling dots in the night sky aren’t all stars like the sun. In many cases it is two or even more stars that revolve around their common center of gravity and together …