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Hubble telescope reveals huge star’s explosion in blow-by-blow detail

Hubble telescope reveals huge star’s explosion in blow-by-blow detail

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About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova documented by astronomers in blow-by-blow detail. Researchers on Wednesday said NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture three separate images spanning a […]

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‘Cosmic cannibalism’: Astronomers observe dead star ripping up an entire planetary system

‘Cosmic cannibalism’: Astronomers observe dead star ripping up an entire planetary system

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A star is ending its life so violently that the dead star left behind, called a white dwarf, is disrupting an entire planetary system by sucking in debris from both its inner and outer reaches. This cosmic phenomenon is the first time that astronomers have observed. The white dwarf star is consuming the rock-metallic and […]

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