A seven-Earth-radius helium-burning star inside a 20.5-min detached binary

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Nature Astronomy, Published online: 09 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41550-023-02188-2

A very uncommon detached binary system with a 20.5-min orbital period has been discovered to harbour a carbon–oxygen white dwarf star and a low-mass subdwarf B star with a seven-Earth radius that traces the theoretical limit of binary evolution predicted 20 years ago.

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