A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...
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Scientists discover low-luminosity supernova: A new class of stellar explosions
SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC 2146. This rare find is shedding new light on how stars ...
In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...
It’s Valentine’s weekend in Butler, and while — in my opinion — this is one of those holidays driven by greeting card companies, restaurants, flower shops and more, it’s still a wonderful holiday and ...
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A major star just blinked out of existence and scientists are stunned
A bright star in the Andromeda galaxy appears to have simply vanished. After a dramatic mid-infrared flare in 2014, the object has faded in visible light by a factor of more than 10,000 by 2023, ...
Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...
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