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Wed, 10/21/2020 - 4:06am

Apep is a rare stellar system containing a pair of doomed Wolf-Rayet stars, orbiting each other 8,000 light years from Earth. A new study reveals this system could erupt as the first gamma ray burst ever seen in our home galaxy. Wolf-Rayet stars are on the verge of exploding as a supernova, and they are destined to leave behind exotic corpses such as neutron stars and black holes.

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