We only see one star, our Sun, up close on a daily basis, but the Milky Way is absolutely packed with them. It’s estimated that there are over 300 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and perhaps as many as 400 billion. With so much sky to cover, scientists are doing their best to catalog and observe as many as they can, but a new finding by astronomers at the University of Sydney is worth some extra attention.
Around 8,000 light years from Earth a pair of stars are locked closely together, orbiting each other approximately every one hundred days, and one of them is very close to death. When it finally bites the dust, researchers believe it could produce one of the most energetic explosions in the universe.
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Scientists spot distant stars engaged in a dangerous dance originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 13:34:42 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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