Astronomers: What the Hell Is THAT?

[Tuckerfan]

I don’t know. What the hell is that?

Some stars take, some give.

Then there is the tortured relationship in EF Eridanus, where the smaller of two stars gave so much to its larger companion that it reached a dead end, and scientists said on Tuesday they haven’t seen anything like it.

Doomed to orbit its more energetic partner for millions of years, the burned-out star has lost so much mass that it can no longer sustain nuclear fusion at its core and has become a new, indeterminate stellar object, astronomers said in a statement.

[Odinoneeye]

We could call it a robbed dwarf

[Hal_Briston]

Whatever it is, maybe it’s where this came from.