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Hubble Detects Giant ‘Cannonballs’ Shooting from Star

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This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.