Regular violent eruptions from interacting pair of stars
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 08:20
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have spotted violent eruptions from an interacting pair of stars that orbit around each other every 25 minutes. Unusually, these outbursts take place at regular and predictable intervals, erupting every two months. The new observations were made using the fully robotic Liverpool Telescope sited in the Canary Islands and the orbiting Swift observatory.