Kronos and Krios, Annotated (IMAGE)
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Stars HD 240430 and HD 240429, better known as Kronos and Krios, as they appear in the Space Telescope Science Institute's Digitized Sky Survey. Though these binary stars formed together, their chemical abundances are very different, leading researchers to conclude that Kronos had absorbed 15 Earth masses worth of rocky planets.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech)
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