There's a twisted reason why this distant star flickers every couple of minutes
M. Garlick/University of Warwick/ESO
Every 1.97 minutes, 380 light years from Earth, a star in the constellation Scorpius brightens then fades.
Recently, astronomers using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, along with a handful of other telescopes, were able to figure out the extraordinary story behind this flickering star.
And the answer is something so violent and twisted that scientists could never have imagined it.
The surprising (and... Читать дальше...