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Staking Out A Vampire Star
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5 months, 3 weeks, 1 day, 4 hours agoHow do you peer into the dark heart of a vampire star? Try combining four telescopes! At ESO’s Paranal Observatory they created a virtual telescope 130 metres across with vision 50 times sharper than the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and observed a very unusual event… the transfer of mass from one star to another. While you might assume this to be a
violent action, it turns out that it’s a gradual drain. Apparently SS Leporis stands for “super slow”.
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