Outbursts from a Massive Star
Edmonds Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered what is triggering repeated outbursts from a giant, unstable star located in the galaxy shown in this image released on Nov.
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- Aghakhanloo et al.; Optical: SDSS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.
The volatile star, known as AT 2016blu, is in the spiral galaxy NGC 4559, located about 30 million light-years from Earth.
Astronomers estimate the mass of this star is at least 33 times that of the Sun.
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