August 17, 2007

Astronomers find bizarre comet-like tail behind star

"This is an utterly new phenomenon to us, and we are still in the process of understanding the physics involved. We never would have predicted a turbulent wake behind a star that glows only with ultraviolet light," team member Mark Seibert from the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, US was quoted as saying.

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