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Accidental discovery reveals 'millinovas,' a new class of cosmic explosion 100 times brighter than the sun


"We came across a group of outbursting variable stars exhibiting very characteristic triangle-shaped symmetrical outbursts that did not resemble any previously known variable stars."

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