This Star Is Consuming Its Companion And Could Explode Brilliantly

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This illustration shows the double star V Sagittae. It's about 10,000 light years from Earth, and hosts a Wolf-Rayet star that's drawing material away from its main sequence companion. Image Credit: University of Southampton

A binary star that has puzzled astronomers for decades may finally be explained. The accretor star is sucking material from its donor star so rapidly that it can’t contain it all and is forming a bright, circumbinary ring.

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