Astronomers discover two stars that became a binary system just 60 years ago
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Astronomers discovered that two stars in the binary system IRAS 07299-1651, located 5,300 light-years away, likely formed separately and only joined together about 60 years ago. Their highly eccentric orbits, revealed through observations using ALMA and other telescopes, suggest a chance encounter rather than formation from the same gas disk.
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