US EditionAstronomers Capture a Record 130-Year Evolution of a Dying Star
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An international team of researchers led by Professor Albert Zylstra from the University of Manchester and Professor Quentin Parker from the University of Hong Kong has revealed that the heart of the IC418 nebula, which is about 4,000 light-years away and belongs to a star cluster called the Hare Cluster, has undergone a dramatic change that can be directly measured over 130 years - a period of time considered "instantaneous" in astronomical ter…
For the first time, scientists have directly followed the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century – revolutionizing that it warms up faster than any other typical star ever observed. Research, published today Astrophysical Newsletters has 130 years of change in the planetary "spirograph" IC418 – [...]
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