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The Loneliest Young Star (Artist Concept)
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This artist's concept shows an unusual celestial object called CX330 was first detected as a source of X-ray light in 2009 by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory while it was surveying the bulge in the central region of the Milky Way. A 2016 study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society found that CX330 is the most isolated young star that has been discovered.
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Credit lineThe Loneliest Young Star (Artist Concept). NASA/JPL, 2016-07-27. Public domain. ID: PIA20700.
