Star exploded, survived, and exploded again more than 50 years later
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:27 pm
Star exploded, survived, and exploded again more than 50 years later
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-star-survived-years.html
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-star-survived-years.html
It turned out that somehow this star exploded more than half a century ago, survived, and exploded again in 2014.
"This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work," said lead author Iair Arcavi of University of California Santa Barbara and Las Cumbres Observatory.