Episode 91: The Binary Star Hypothesis

from Exposing PseudoAstronomy · host Stuart Robbins

Some think that our Sun is part of a binary star system, that there is another star out there, gravitationally bound, that does bad things to us from time-to-time. This has some observational data that it can explain. But, what about current data, and what about current searches for such an object? And, where do genuine scientific pursuits cross the line into pseudoscience?

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