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Thursday 11 December 2014

Astronomers Spot Massive Blue Stars Beginning To Merge



In the Giraffe constellation 13,000 light-years away, MY Camelopardalis is a massive binary system made up of two blue (that is, very hot and very bright) stars. They’re so close, they’re about to merge into a supermassive star—a process no one has ever seen before. Even though MY Cam is the first k…

by José Lourenço via Facebook at December 11, 2014 at 10:12AM

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