November 9, 2026
NASA’s Chandra Finds Source of Star’s Mysterious Outbursts
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NASA's Chandra finds source of star's outbursts. The luminous blue variable star AT 2016blu is located in the galaxy NGC 4559, about 30 million light-years from Earth. Chandra X-ray data shows X-ray point sources in purple, with the galaxy and objects in red and blue from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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