The pulsar PSR B1957+20 and the brown dwarf are dancing a cosmic dervish in an
eclipsing binary system 6,500 light-years away.
A lot may have been brainwashed into believing the oversimplified statement of 'the Devil you know is better than an Angel you are hoping for.' But that is a mere emotional
eclipsing binary designed to make simpletons remain in their comfort zones while dying of the fear of the unknown as combined with the treatment of real issues as a figment of our fantasy.
PSR J1723-2837: An
eclipsing binary radio millisecond pulsar.
Most commonly, the light dips are caused by a chance alignment with an "
eclipsing binary"--a pair of stars that orbit each other, with one occasionally blocking the light from the other.
By analysing data on the star's varying brightness, using observations from other observatories, the astronomers confirmed the object to be an
eclipsing binary system where the smaller component passes in front and behind the larger one as it orbits.
These systems have been publicised in '
Eclipsing Binary News' which continues to be a regular feature of VSS Circulars.
Among the topics are the origin and evolution of helium-rich hot subdwarfs, the high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of hot subdwarfs, the discovery of a stripped red-giant core in a bright
eclipsing binary star, statistical tests for changes inpulsation mode properties, and EO Ceti as an example of a pulsating hot subdwarf with a main-sequence companion.
Krzemenski (1974) declared that the X-ray star Cen X-3 is a component of an
eclipsing binary system consists of the star Cen X-3 and a giant optical star of the spectral type B0, with optical magnitude 13.4 mag at a distance of 10 kpc.
The star system is unusual, because it is what the scientists have called a "yellow supergiant
eclipsing binary"--it contains two very bright, massive yellow stars that are very closely orbiting each other.
A further seventeen papers address eclipse-related issues of extra-solar physics, including solar and stellar eclipse mapping, line profiles during eclipse of binary stars, classification of eclipsing binaries, photometric and spectroscopic studies of the
eclipsing binary, the light curve variation of the Be Star EM Cep, and determination of physical parameters of cataclysmic variables from analysis of their light curves.