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Rare strobe-like binary protostar found

The Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light, a phenomenon that astronomers think is caused by periodic interactions between two newly formed stars that are gravitationally bound to each other. Every 25.34 days, the object (located 950 light-years from Earth and designated […]

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