Such stellar component could likely take 42.4 years to complete its orbit around the Cepheid (semimajor axis around 10.8 Astronomical Units).
A planet can pick up enough energy through a series of gravitational swing-bys past the stellar components to hurl it right out of the system.
This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system, which means that the two stellar components have not been individually resolved with a telescope.
It is a multiple star system having at least four stellar components.
Infrared images of the Trapezium are better able to penetrate the surrounding clouds of dust, and have located many more stellar components.
No amount of magnification by Earth observers could give any structural detail of the stellar components.
It is occasionally eclipsed by other stellar components within the system in ways similar to Algol.
The two stellar components of this system are currently separated by about 190 AU.
He felt a vast admiration for the mellow wisdom of Almalik, the stellar component of the symbiotic citizen that so many human beings had joined.
The Tau Ceti system is believed to have only one stellar component.
