Artist's Impression of Pulsating Object LRLL 54361

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spitzer_ssc2013-04b February 7th, 2013

Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

This is an artist's impression of two young binary stars that may be the source of mysterious clock-like bursts of light from an object called LRLL 54361 that lies inside the star-forming region IC 348, located 950 light-years away. Astronomers propose that the flashes are due to material in a circumstellar disk suddenly being dumped onto the growing young stars and unleashing a blast of radiation each time the stars get close to each other in their orbit.

Provider: Spitzer Space Telescope

Image Source: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/5544-ssc2013-04b-Artist-s-Impression-of-Pulsating-Object-LRLL-54361

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NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
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Artwork
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Good
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Equinox
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu
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1200 E. California Blvd.
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Pasadena
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CA
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91125
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USA
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Spitzer Science Center
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2017-03-13
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