Object 76: A Modern Non-Comet
- Author
- George Bendo
- Published
- Mon 27 Jun 2022
- Episode Link
- https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0076.html
Sakurai's Object was discovered in 1996 by the amateur astronomer Yukio Sakurai, who had been searching for comets but who had instead found a dying star that had brifly undergone a final burst of fusion, causing it to increase dramatically in brightness.
