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News Release 14-142
From the mouths of ... young fireballs
Unprecedented nova images illuminate astronomers' models for its ejecta
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Last year, on Aug. 14, Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered a "new" star, promptly named Nova Delphinus 2013.
Credit: Jimmy Westlake, Colorado Mountain College via Wikimedia Commons
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