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RARE ‘TEARDROP’ STAR AND ITS INVISIBLE PARTNER ARE DOOMED TO EXPLODE IN A MASSIVE SUPERNOVA

stronomers have discovered a rare, teardropshaped star swirling through the cosmos some 1,500 light years from the Sun. Why does the star have this

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