# NASA’s Chandra Finds Source of Star’s Mysterious Outbursts

NASA’s Chandra Finds Source of Star’s Mysterious Outbursts

via [NASA (all news)](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasas-chandra-finds-source-of-stars-mysterious-outbursts/)

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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