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Astronomers zoom in on Epsilon Aurigae's eclipse mystery

Star pictures captured by a new instrument developed at the University of Michigan (U-M) confirm that Epsilon Aurigae is eclipsed every 27 years by a pancake-flat dusk disk orbiting its companion star edge-on, in an unlikely alignment for a binary system.

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In this illustration of Epsilon Aurigae's peculiar eclipse that occurs every 27 years, a companion object, thought to be a smaller, so-called B star, is circled by a flat, dusty disk.

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