beep
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- A star called Sakurai's Object has become six times hotter in the past 30 years, one of the fastest increases ever seen.
- It has entered a new stage of stellar evolution, representing a Wolf-Rayet star.
- The rapidly changing star offers astronomers a rare opportunity to watch stellar evolution unfold in real time.
- Sakurai’s Object is a dead star which re-ignited in the 1990’s as a ‘born-again’ star. 30 years ago it was similar in temperature to our Sun.
- New observations show the star is reheating more gradually than some theories predicted
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