For a long time, scientists believed that just like humans, stars died only once. Now, a rare sighting seems to change the widely held belief. Scientists from the European Space Observatory (ESO) have spotted the first-ever visual evidence of a double detonation of a star, meaning death twice. “This tangible evidence of a double-detonation not […]
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In 1930, a young Indian physicist named Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar boarded a ship from India to England. Just 19 years old, he spent much of the long voyage working out the mathematics of what happens when a star collapses under its own gravity. What he found was shocking: stars above a certain mass couldn’t stop their […]
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The stars in the sky seem to shine forever, but they too are subject to lifespans determined by their mass and internal physics. Some last for billions of years and others are transitory in comparison, with far shorter lifetimes. Regardless of duration, all stars survive by maintaining a balance between two competing forces: the inward […]
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