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Hot subdwarfs come into focus as AI scans thousands of stars in Gaia data

There are myriad ways of "being a star," and scientists spend years trying to uncover and understand them. One unusual type is the so-called hot subdwarf—small stars that burn mysteriously hot for their size. Scientists from the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Vi...

Hot subdwarfs come into focus as AI scans thousands of stars in Gaia data
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There are myriad ways of "being a star," and scientists spend years trying to uncover and understand them. One unusual type is the so-called hot subdwarf—small stars that burn mysteriously hot for their size. Scientists from the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Vilnius University (VU) are working to explain this strange phenomenon and recently made important breakthroughs.

Originally published at Phys.org

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