Massive Tidal Waves Taller Than The Sun Are Crashing on a Distant Star
When it comes to deep space phenomena, the gigantic plasma waves breaking around star system MACHO 80.7443.1718 – so named for the MACHO Project that first spotted it in the 1990s – really do take some beating. MACHO 80.7443.1718 is what's known as a heartbeat star, a binary star system where two stars orbit each other with drastically variable distances between them.