Bad astronomy | Quaternary star HD 74438 shows astronomers how stars can explode
About 460 light-years from Earth lies the small but lovely star cluster IC 2391. It only contains about 250 stars, but one of them is special…because it is actually four stars, a quaternary system. Astronomers studying this system have now shown that complicated interactions between stars will lead to a lifetime of them, and maybe …
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