When a massive star dies, astronomers expect a familiar chemical script: hydrogen and helium on the outside, heavier elements buried deep within. The latest observations of a stellar explosion known ...
In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally pull itself apart. Instead of a neat, textbook explosion, the dying object ...
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