Astronomers detected a rare star eclipse, where one star was masked by dust from its companion in a binary system.
The universe is full of mysterious galaxies, systems, and planets. While we’ve seen a ton of success from the James Webb space telescope when exploring the early universe, space continues to baffle and surprise scientists daily. One of the most recent surprises comes from a rare star eclipse, which left a star shrouded in dust from its companion for over seven years.
Astronomers say the discovery was one of fantastic good fortune, as the binary system that houses the star has a very long orbital period. As such, capturing observations of this rare star eclipse was a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and we managed to strike the lottery with it.
The star is known as Gaia17bpp.
