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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Peanuts in the Sky

"Two New Star Systems Are First Of Their Kind Ever Found"
Astronomy Report (April 1, 2008)

They're both yellow supergiant eclipsing binaries: two very big, very bright yellow stars orbiting each other. What makes these two pairs unusual is that they each has such a close orbit that each pair is shaped like a peanut.

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