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visual binary
noun
Astronomy.
- a binary star having components that are sufficiently separated to be resolved by a telescope.
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- See under binary star
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Alpha Centauri—the nearest star to the earth—is a visual binary, the component bodies revolving around each other in a period of about eighty-one years.
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