How an astronomer accidentally found a star stuck in a cosmic waltz

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March 14, 2025, 9:00 AM

Astronomer Naman Bajaj made a brilliant find while analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope. He discovered that one of the star subjects he and his collaborators already spent so much time with was actually a double; it's just that no one had noticed. The cosmos, we're constantly reminded, is big enough that something as incomprehensibly huge as a pair of stars waltzing around one another can be missed.

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