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Bishop’s professor helps make ­astronomical ­discovery

20 June 2017 at 20 h 17 min
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Bishop’s professor helps make ­astronomical ­discovery

Two-and-a-half thousand light-years away exist two very important celestial objects that have just been discovered. Dr. Lorne Nelson, professor and department chairperson of physics at Bishop’s University, helped find a rare binary system consisting of a failed star orbiting a dead sun.
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