The star, named V838 Monocerotis, has suddenly grown so big that if placed in the center of our solar system it would engulf Jupiter.
“A supernova would have been much brighter than V838 Mon, so that is ruled out,” said Howard Bond, a Space Telescope Science Institute researcher who led the observations. “V838 Mon was [...]
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