It’s not all hearts and flowers for some ‘kissing stars’ – stars that exist in close binaries that have been locked in a waltz that has left one a shrunken husk, and the other a swollen orb. Astronomers have zoomed in on a group of such ‘odd couple’ stars, only to discover the bodies appear to have been created by a voracious and essentially cannibalistic stellar feeding process. A team led by Georgia State postdoctoral research associate Robert Klement
