What is an eclipsing binary?

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chandramohanPanakkal
Apr 22, 2016

When two stars orbit each other and both comes in our line of sight brightness variations take palace due to one eclipsing other.

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One star goes in front and back of other making changes in brightness..From distance we see only one star so suspect it to be a variable.But the variations are due to eclipsing effect.enter image source here
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