Valentine's Day won't be all hearts and flowers for some "kissing stars" — or, in other words, stars that exist in close binaries that have been locked in a waltz that has left one a shrunken husk, and the other a swollen orb.
Astronomers have zoomed in on a group of such "odd couple" stars, only to discover the bodies appear to have been created by a voracious and essentially cannibalistic stellar feeding process. How unromantic.
