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Notre Dame Student Discovers Rare Star

Author: Marissa Gebhard

Categories: General News, Research, and Alumni

College of Arts and Letters alumnus and current Notre Dame law student Colin Littlefield’s late-night job at the Notre Dame Observatory has led to a one-in-a-billion discovery of a rare type of star—a Wolf-Rayet. Littlefield ’11 discovered the exceptional star, named WR 142b, this past summer, and he and his colleagues announced the discovery in a paper accepted for publication in _The Astronomical Journal_.

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