A star that was "re-born" just ten years ago may already have started to become a white dwarf again according to new results from an international team of astronomers. Albert Zijlstra of Manchester University in the UK and colleagues have developed a new model to explain why the star - known as Sakurai's object or V4334 Sgr - has evolved a hundred times faster than expected (M Hajduk et al. 2005 Science 308 231).
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