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Sakurai's Object

A born-again star that brightened suddenly in 1996 and is one of only two objects ever caught directly in a very late thermal pulse, the reignition of a helium layer in a star already heading toward white dwarf status.

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VLT spectra catch Sakurai's Object growing a Wolf-Rayet wind 30 years after its outburst

Most stars change too slowly for anyone to watch. Sakurai's Object has moved through a whole stage of stellar death in three decades, and the new measurement says it is recovering more gradually than some models predicted.

Publishers:phys.org

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