In a stunning first-ever image, astronomers have seen a star that died by exploding twice. They pointed the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at supernova SNR 0509-67.5, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way in the far-southern constellation of Dorado the Swordfish. When they examined theContinue reading “Astronomers find a star that exploded twice”
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