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Something occasionally dims the star R2 Piscium. But what?

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New research confirms the star is a mere toddler,

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only 1 percent the Sun's age,

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and suggests that thick blobs of gas and dust erratically dim its light.

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The blobs may be planetary wreckage of a young world or worlds torn apart...

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and perhaps still dissolving today.

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[music] NASA Astrophysics

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Goddard Space Flight Center

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