Sunday, April 6, 2008

 

Ham's Peanut Star Discovered!

As some of you may remember, during our discussion of binary stars in class, Ham Clark was asking questions about stars that actually touch each other rather than simply orbiting each other. While catching up on astronomy blogs this weekend, I read an article about a recently discovered binary star system where this very rare configuration actually takes place!

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/superyellow.htm

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