This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy

The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted Stay connected to The Universe: Get email alerts for this weekly column by Phil Plait There are a lot of weird stars in the universe, but if I had to pick the very weirdest, it would be S301. The name is prosaic, but it hides profundity. Ironically the star itself isn’t really peculiar at all [1].

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1. scientificamerican.com · This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy Sep 4, 2026

This is the neutral brief the press writes once, for everyone, before each reader’s paper adds its own so-what. It links out; it does not republish. 1 article clustered.

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