Friday 7 October 2016

Hubble reveals Mars-sized plasma balls shooting from a dying star



NASA say a seemingly impossible star is shedding light on one the galaxy's more perplexing structures. The red giant V Hydrae has been shedding gigantic "cannonballs" of energetic plasma once every 8.5 years over the past 400 years, but closer examination suggests the culprit is an invisible companion.

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