Incredible image captures violent fight between 2 stars
Like humans, stars grow old and eventually die. Also like humans, stars sometimes fight with their closest friends.
A telescope in Chile recently captured the chaotic moment one star swallowed another, ending its life prematurely in an epic stellar confrontation. During the battle, one of the stars grew so large it was able to engulf the other, which then spiraled and caused the original star to shed its outer layers.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), astronomers spotted a gas cloud that resulted from the battle in the star system HD101584. The team published their findings in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
"The star system HD101584 is special in the sense that this 'death process' was terminated prematurely and dramatically as a nearby low-mass companion star was engulfed by the giant," lead author Hans Olofsson of the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, said in a press release Wednesday.
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