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Three zombie stars on the run

Stars moving at high velocity seem to have managed to live on after cataclysm.
Artist's impression of the Gaia spacecraft, with the Milky Way in the background

Data from the Gaia spacecraft (artist’s rendering) helped to identify stars that survived a runaway nuclear reaction in their cores. Credit: ESA/ATG/ESO/S.Brunier

Astronomers have discovered three peculiar runaway stars that have apparently survived cataclysmic explosions at their cores.

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Nature 571, 149 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02083-9

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