The stars likely had a violent past in their formation, researchers believe.
Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of why a strange pair of stars thousands of light years away has more than a million-year age gap.
The researchers said their findings, published in the journal Science, helps solve two long-standing mysteries: why two stars in this binary star system have a huge age difference, and how massive stars – with a mass that is eight or more times that of the Sun – get their magnetic fields. “The two inner stars merged in a violent manner, creating a magnetic star and throwing out some material, which created the nebula.
A team of international scientists analysed nine years’ worth of data from HD 148937, which is around 3,800 light years away from Earth, located in the direction of the Norma constellation.
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