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Stars and solar physics

Stars and solar physics

Cataclysmic binary star has the shortest known orbital period

26 Oct 2022
Artistic impression of the cataclysmic star system
Feeding frenzy: artist’s illustration of a cataclysmic variable with a white dwarf (right) feeding upon a Sun-like donor star. (Courtesy: M Weiss/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian)
Astronomers have discovered a pair of stars that circle each other in just 51 minutes, which is the

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