Binary Star EF Eridanus Baffles Astronomers

baldinux writes "Reuters is reporting the finding of a new stellar object in the Eridanus constellation that may require the astronomical community to create a new category of stellar entities -- that is, dead ones. In the binary system, one of the stars 'gave too much' (Reuters) of its own resources to its partner white dwarf star, resulting in a breakdown of nuclear fusion, thus producing this 'dead' entity. Researchers at Gemini North (click here for images) and Keck II observatories at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have been analyzing this unique system."

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In human terms...

[Anonymous Coward]

In human terms this is known as marriage.

They should name binary pair...

[bobdotorg]

They meet, they accrete, and then dance for years as they happily twirl about. But as time goes by her ass grows more massive as she sucks out his soul and he becomes a shadow of his former self.

So I propose the name: Succubus and the Bitter Old Man.