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Anna N. Żytkow

Polish astrophysicist · Poland · On the map · Scientists · Born 1947 · age 79

Anna Nikola Żytkow is a Polish astrophysicist working at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge. Żytkow and Kip Thorne proposed a model for what is called the Thorne-Żytkow object, which is a star within another star.

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Żytkow in 2014 was part of the team led by Emily M. Levesque which discovered the first candidate for such an object.

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Poland
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Scientists
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Scientist
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Dates
Born 1947 · age 79