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Astronomers capture a record 130-year evolution of a dying star - revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed


For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century - revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed.The research, published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, tracks 130 years of changes in the “spirograph” Planetary Nebula IC418 - a glow...

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