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Gaia satellite and amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star
An international team of researchers, with the assistance of amateur astronomers, have discovered a unique binary star system: the first known such system where one star completely eclipses the other. It is a type of two-star system known as a Cataclysmic Variable, where one super dense white dwarf star is stealing gas from its companion star, effectively 'cannibalising' it.
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For a second there, I thought that this was an Onion article, but no, that's a real group.