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<p>A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the Universe. </p>
<p>Research by PhD student Jonathan Dodd and <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/physics/staff/4121/professor-rene-oudmaijer">Professor René Oudmaijer</a>, from the University’s <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/physics">School of Physics and Astronomy</a>, points to intriguing new evidence that massive Be stars – until now mainly thought to exist in double stars – could in fact be “triples”. </p>
<p>The remarkable discovery could revolutionise our understanding of the objects – a subset of B stars - which ar
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