Astronomers spot the exposed inner core of an 'oddball' star by accident

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By sheer chance, astronomers have spotted the stripped core of a star that was once 12 times the mass of the sun during a stage of stellar evolution that lasts the b of a cosmic eye.

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Epic fail on the author's part not to include the most basic facts about this star, easily gleaned from a wiki article on it..

Gamma Columbae, Latinized from γ Columbae, is a possible wide binary star system in the southern constellation of Columba. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.36. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 3.75 mas, it is located roughly 870 light years from the Sun.

How can you omit such basic facts? I couldn't be the only one wondering. Talk about phoning it in!