the.com/binary star
two suns locked in a gravitational tango, neither able to walk away.
means a system where two stars orbit a common center of mass, bound together by gravity for millions or billions of years.
from from the greek astronomer's obsession with sorting the sky, though the term was popularized by william herschel in 1802 after he noticed stars pairing up too often to be coincidence.
actual rarityover half of all stars have a companion
our suntechnically a rare single star, no partner
eventual fatesome pairs eventually merge or trigger supernovae
sunsetstatooine's double sunset is scientifically plausible