This Star Is Being Eaten Alive—and Its Explosive Death Will Be Visi...
In recent developments, a case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted from earth during the day Experts suggest that a study published this august in the journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society investigated a binary star system about 10,000 light-years from earth called v sagittae According to reports, researchers finally solved the century-long mystery behind what makes it so freaking bright In recent developments, they found that the system is strangely luminous because one of the pair, a super-dense white dwarf, is absolutely scarfing down on its larger sibling at unprecedented speed According to reports, eventually, the two stars will collide, producing a supernova explosion of unusual brightness This highlights that the event is set to occur “in the coming years,” the researchers said in a university statement Experts suggest that the brightest of its kind “v sagittae is no ordinary star system—it’s the brightest of its kind and has baffled experts since it was first discovered in 1902 In recent developments, our study shows that this extreme brightness is down to the white dwarf sucking the life out of its companion star, using the accreted matter to turn it into a blazing inferno,†phil charles, a co-author of the study and a researcher at the university of southampton, said in the statement
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