Light echoes and mysterious stars
Karen sent a link to an article at Space.com about a bizarre new nova-like star that is expanding and cooling in a way astronomers didn’t expect. At the same time, it’s giving us a show: a light echo, which is light that bounced off larger and larger regions of dust around the star as the star got brighter.
Posted by Karen in Space on March 27th, 2003 Edit this page's grammar and spelling with Emend.
