Watching A 'New Star' Make The Universe Dusty
Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 15:28
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, and follow its evolution for more than 100 days. This provides the astronomers with a new way to estimate the distance of this object and obtain invaluable information on the operating mode of stellar vampires, dense stars that suck material from a companion.
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