UCLA, JPL scientists observe mysterious death of a star emitting six rings - EurekAlert

Astrophysicists studying in unprecedented detail a red giant star named V Hydrae — have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes. Researchers from UCLA and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered that the carbon-rich star has expelled six slowly expa…
image: A rendering of the star V Hydrae, or V Hya for short. In its death throes, the star has emitted a series of expanding rings that scientists calculated are being formed every few hundred years,… [+5237 chars] Read More