First Astronomy

Star-eating star spotted

SNACK TIME  Thorne-Żytkow Objects probably start out as binary stars, shown in this illustration. A supergiant eventually engulfs its neutron star companion (right).

ESA 

By Christopher Crockett

- More than 2 years ago

A star in a neighboring galaxy might have swallowed another star.

Sitting about 200,000 light-years away in the constellation Tucana, the star HV 2112 appears to be a red supergiant that has engulfed a neutron star.