While helping an astronomy professor you find a binary star


While helping an astronomy professor, you find a binary star system in which the two stars are in circular orbits about the system's center of mass. From their color and brightness, you decide that each star has the same mass as our Sun. The orbital period of the pair is 43.3 days, based on the oscillation of brightness observed as one star occludes (hides) the other. From this information you are able to ascertain the distance among the stars. Compute the distance between the stars.

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