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Two Stars in a Binary System are Very Different. It's Because There Used to be Three


A beautiful nebula in the southern hemisphere with a binary star at it's center seems to break our standard models of stellar evolution. But new data from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) suggests that there may once have been three stars, and that one was destroyed in a catastrophic collision.

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