Two stars in our galaxy are far hotter than others of their size and covered in the remains of burning helium. They may have formed in a rare type of stellar merger.
Two strange stars that researchers describe as “freaks” have been spotted in our galaxy. Both are far hotter than stars that are otherwise similar to them, and they seem to be covered in a layer of carbon and oxygen.
at the University of Potsdam in Germany and her colleagues found these two stars, called PG1654+322 and PG1528+025, using the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. When the researchers analysed them, they found two unexpected properties., but these stars are far hotter than others of their size.
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