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R Aquarii - A Nearby Exploding Star
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R Aquarii - A Nearby Exploding Star

February 5, 2005
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the inner core of the nearby so-called "symbiotic star", R Aquarii, to reveal dramatic new details of the exploding star. The observations were made with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera.