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Author: * Sokni Hvitaskald -
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Date: Aug 16, 2007 - 20:47
By Ker Than,
Staff Writer
posted: 15 August 2007
01:01 pm ET
A dying star hurtling through space has left a comet-like tail that reveals its history stretching back 30,000 years.
"This is an utterly new phenomenon to us, and we are still in the process of understanding the physics involved," said study team member Mark Seibert of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. "We hope to be able to read Mira's tail like a ticker tape to learn about the star's life."
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070815_star_tail.html
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