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New type of supernova sends exploding star speeding across the Milky Way – Digital Market News
An illustration of the white dwarf and other material being ejected by a supernova blast.
University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Astronomers say they may have discovered a new type of supernova explosion, which sent a white dwarf star tearing across the galaxy at 560,000 miles per hour.
Scientists think a pair of stars underwent a partial supernova and survived, likely blasting themselves across the Milky Way in different directions in the process.
“It must have come from some kind of close b…
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