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Most stars in the Milky Way just hang around doing pretty normal star things, but one particular star just will not.
Now, 88 years later, they finally have answers. FU Orionis is actively feeding on a stream of material – and, using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers led by Antonio Hales of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory has directly imaged that stream of material.
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