BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

V Hydrae

CARBON STAR · firing plasma cannonballs
V Hydrae
AI illustration of the real object
ODDITY shoots glowing blobs every 8.5 years

A deep red carbon star with a party trick no one fully understands: roughly every eight and a half years it fires a glowing blob of plasma into space, each one about twice the size of Mars. The chief suspect is an unseen companion star that skims through V Hydrae's bloated atmosphere and flings material out. A stellar cannon on a slow timer.

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