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Red giant brings its companion star back to life
There’s some adage out there about helping out your neighbor, right? Well, a red giant star was recently spotted lending more than just a cup of flour to its companion neutron star — it blasted it with winds that nourished the dead star back to life in a burst of X-ray light. The X-ray burst was first detected by the European Space Agency’s Integral space observatory in August 2017, but because of its location in the direction of the Milky Way’s center, researchers weren’t able easily identify its origin.
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