Jawaan!

Not everyone will be saying grace and sitting down to football and multiple helpings of turkey and pie on Thanksgiving Day tomorrow.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured the first time-lapse movie of a rare shell ejected by a “vampire star.” The gas-sucking star is part of a double star system known as V445 in the constellation of Puppis (”the Stern”) that is devouring part of a companion star looks to be a ticking time bomb. It appears that this double star system is a prime candidate to be one of the long-sought progenitors of the exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae, critical for studies of dark energy