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Dimming of FU Orionis (Artist Concept)
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This artist's concept illustrates how the brightness of outbursting star FU Orionis has been slowly fading since its initial flare-up in 1936. The star is pictured with the disk of material that surrounds it. Researchers found that it has dimmed by about 13 percent at short infrared wavelengths from 2004 (left) to 2016 (right). The 2004 data were collected with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and the 2016 data were collected with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
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Credit lineDimming of FU Orionis (Artist Concept). NASA/JPL, 2016-06-14. Public domain. ID: PIA20689.
