Astronomers Get Imaging the legend theory of "Married Stars"

Scientists know that the two stars may be a human being like a rope that was tied by marriage. However, during the years of searching, astronomers have not found it.

Until finally the good news came from Romuald Tylenda, the Polish astronomer, who managed to capture the image of the phenomenon that mating star.

The invention starts from the discovery of the phenomenon named v1309 star Scorpii. Stars who found through observations at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Torun, Poland, it was first encountered in 2008 when he was issued a tongue of fire. Several studies carried out, but astronomers have not found what had happened.

After making observations since 2002 at an observatory in Warsaw, Tylenda and colleagues find variations of light in the v1309.

Variation indicates that the v1309 beginning was double star nearby, a star that is "almost touching" and surround each other in a very short time, only 1.4 days.

As time passed, the outer layers of stars orbiting each other hundreds of times and began to form a unity. When that happens, Tylenda and his colleagues saw that the light is brighter stars 300 times during 10 days. In observations of August 2008, an explosion occurred and eventually became a star's core.

When the marriage took place star, its light to 30,000 times brighter than the Sun. The energy of the star's core is poured out. Based Tylenda publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the light grew brighter as the two stars to one star. After several months, returned to normal starlight.

Until now, scientists can not predict the material dissipated during mating star. To find out, required observations with the Hubble telescope. Unfortunately, the material can block the scattered observations. Tylenda is a professor of astronomy at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center.

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