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Artist's Impression of Pulsating Object LRLL 54361
This is an artist's impression of two young binary stars that may be the source of mysterious clock-like bursts of light from an object called LRLL 54361 that lies inside the star-forming region IC 348, located 950 light-years away. Astronomers propose that the flashes are due to material in a circumstellar disk suddenly being dumped onto the growing young stars and unleashing a blast of radiation each time the stars get close to each other in their orbit.
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News Release NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes ssc2013-04 |
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Video Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar ssc2013-04v1 |
