A spotted giant blinking star near the center of the Milky Way.
An international team of astronomers has observed a giant star 'VVV-WIT-08' lurking near the heart of the Milky Way. Located at almost 25,000 light years, it is believed that the star belongs to a new kind of binary system of "giant blinking".
In this STAR system, the star is 100 times larger than the Sun and eclipsed once every few decades by an orbital companion even though.
The observations of the telescope have revealed that this giant stalking star is attenuated by 97%, that is, decreasing in brightness in a factor of 30 and then slowly returned to its previous shine.
The author, Dr. Sergey Koposov, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "It is amazing that we have just observed a dark, large and elongated pass between us and the star far, and we can only speculate what its origin is...