# Astronomers: What the Hell Is THAT? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronomers-what-the-hell-is-that/267771 "2004-10-06T00:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronomers-what-the-hell-is-that/267771/1 "2004-10-06T00:47:41Z")
[I don’t know. What the hell _is_ that?](http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/05/space.star.reut/index.html) > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronomers-what-the-hell-is-that/267771/2 "2004-10-06T03:02:01Z")
We could call it a robbed dwarf ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronomers-what-the-hell-is-that/267771/3 "2004-10-06T03:25:18Z")
Whatever it is, maybe it’s where [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=258660) came from.