The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

Astronomers Baffled by Bizarre Star

By kuky at Sun, 05/18/2008 - 2:20pm

(May 16) - Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.

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http://news.aol.com/story/_a/astronomers-baffled-by-bizarre-star/2008051...