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Enter an enormous star called VVV-WIT that is located closer to the center of The Milky Way, about 25 million light-years away from Planet Earth? Scientists have identified that its brightness is dimming down to about 3.3% of its maximum luster for several months before gradually returning to its previous luminosity. Yeah, this wasn’t just a momentary disappearance. This was a 200 day-long event that had scientists scratching their heads and blinking furiously in their own right. Why has VVV-WIT been disappearing on us and acting like an overworked husband when his young secretary is in town ? What out there is so large and enigmatically powerful that it almost completely blot out a star that is almost 100 times larger than our Sun?
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Music provided by Monstercat:
Aleyum – Gazing At Space
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Thomas Vanz – Novae
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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA/Swift/N. Degenaar (Univ. of Michigan)
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Amanda Smith, University of Cambridge.