The star has been named after a Greek mythological character, Titan, who ate his own children including Poseidon (well known as the planet Neptune), Hades (Pluto) and three daughters is 350 light years away from planet earth.
The researchers Semyeong Oh, astrophysicist at Princeton University in New Jersey and co-author David Hogg from the Flatiron Institute in New York stated that they didn’t intend to search a planet-eater and were instead analysing a catalog of new star data for pairs of stars with similar speeds and trajectories. But it led to the discovery of Kronos and its lesser known brother, Krios.
Key findings of the study:
• The two stars are identical and are formed from the same ingredient.
• Kronos had a high level of rock-forming minerals, including magnesium, aluminium, silicon, iron, chromium and yttrium.
• Both are about four billion years old, slightly older than sun.
• Both stars orbit each other on the order of every 10,000 years or so.
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