The research team will be continuing its observation of the system in the hopes of finding another planet around the giant star.
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This follows the discovery last year by Maciej Konacki, of the California Institute of Technology, of a gaseous giant orbiting a star that is itself orbited by a binary-star system.
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It may be that the binary pair stops the oscillations on the red giant by tugging on the star's surface at just the right times.
Theory suggests that a certain type of giant, short-lived star can experience catastrophic collapse when the nuclear reactions at its core can no longer support its mass.
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Now, an international team of astronomers has trained the Fermi space-based gamma ray telescope on V407 Cygni, a "binary" system comprising a white dwarf star and a red giant companion, 9, 000 light-years away.
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These objects are predicted to be galaxies in their initial star-forming phase, with giant black holes at their centres.
Red giant refers to a late phase in a star's life when it has begun to exhaust its hydrogen fuel.
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The same team of astronomers who discovered it had earlier found another planet, this time a gaseous giant similar to Neptune, orbiting the same star every 5.4 days.
What is interesting about this star is that it is a former red giant, a so-called "hot B subdwarf".
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Even stars that are born far away from a giant are still likely to be part of a binary or triple star system.
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"First, this icy 'super-Earth' dominates the region around its star that in our Solar System is populated by the gas-giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, " he said.
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Standard Type Ia supernovae are binary systems in which a white dwarf star draws so much matter from its companion (often a red giant) that it undergoes a kind of energy overload and detonates.
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Any civilisation that has built a Dyson sphere will have to have been around for a long time, of course and in the very long run its star will start to change in unpleasant ways, ballooning to form a red giant.
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"When you have stars in a binary or triple system, and one of them burns all its hydrogen and becomes a red giant, if it's close enough it can start to dump some of its material onto that other star, " he explained to BBC News.
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