Astronomy with an online telescope: Week 6: Figure 5 Artist’s impression of eclipsing binary stars. The light curve below shows how the brightness as seen from Earth dips on a regular basis as one star passes in front of another. (ESO.org)

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Figure 5 Artist’s impression of eclipsing binary stars. The light curve below shows how the brightness as seen from Earth dips on a regular basis as one star passes in front of another. (ESO.org)

3.1 Measuring the masses of stars

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