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You’ll Never Guess What These Photos of Stars Actually Show!
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8/7/2024
They might not look like stars, but they are.
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We all know what stars look like, right?
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But what if I told you this wild image of reds and purples, greens and yellows is actually
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an image captured by a telescope looking at one of them.
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This image was captured by one of Gemini South Telescope's newest bits of tech, the Gemini
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High Resolution Optical Spectrograph, or GHOST.
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The telescope was pointed at a star with the very catchy name HD 222925, and the image
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is a high resolution capture of the light being emitted by it.
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In every optical spectrum of light known to man, astronomers say while this is the
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instrument's first outing, in the future it will likely be a quote, essential component
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of the astronomer's toolbox.
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That's because the light tells us more about a star than just its composition.
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Science Alert reports that it can reveal the star's movement, and how it's spinning
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or oscillating, and the content of the light can also tell astronomers how old it is and
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where it came from.
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This star is around 1,460 light years away, and a spectral analysis has already shown
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that it has the most complex composition ever discovered in a star, made up of some 65 different
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elements, which experts say it likely formed when neutron stars collided, or after a catastrophic
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supernova.
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