Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Professor Mike Merrifield looks at M36, and particularly an unusual star which appears "in" the open cluster.
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Professor Merrifield is an astronomer at the University of Nottingham: twitter.com/ProfMike_M

Papers discussed:
A bipolar outflow object in M36-
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/1453666/1838_20373y.pdf
Millimetric and sub-millimetric observations of IRAS 05327+3404 "Holoea" in M36 - arxiv.org/abs/1305.6550

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