Thursday, 22 May 2014

Violent stellar explosion: Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type IIb supernova

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For the first time, astronomers have direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star -- sitting 360 million light years away -- died in a violent explosion known as a Type IIb supernova. Using the iPTF pipeline, researchers caught supernova SN 2013cu within hours of its explosion.

via Science Daily

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