There are stories in the stars, so they say, and the Story of Kronos is a doozy. Astronomers from Princeton noticed some marked chemical differences between the Star and its binary partner, Krios, and on closer inspection they determined the most likely cause: Kronos has devoured the equivalent of 15 Earths.
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