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A team of scientists recently discovered a star that appears to have consumed its own planets, like some sort of infanticidal Titan from Greek mythology. It's the story of HD 240430 and HD 240429,
or as the authors of O et al. 2017 have aptly named them, Kronos and Krios. It's also what we'll be discussing on today's Space Time Journal Club.
Our story begins where every story begins, in the heart of a vast cloud of gas and dust drifting through interstellar space. It's here that stars are born. Now we've talked about this process before, so in short, essentially all stars form in
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