Astronomers Document the Rise and Fall of a Rarely Observed Stellar Dance

January 14, 2021 | James Urton | UW News

A team led by Dr. James Davenport, research assistant professor of astronomy at the UW and associate director of the UW’s DIRAC Institute, analyzed more than 125 years of observations of HS Hydra – from astro-photographic plates in the late 1800s to 2019 observations by TESS – and showed how this system has changed dramatically over the course of just a few generations.

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