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Hubble watches exploding star fade into oblivion – Phys.org
When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long.
When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long.
Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status of a supernova, the self-detonation of a star. The Hubble snapshots have been assembled into a telling movie of the titanic stellar blast disappearing into oblivion in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525, located 70 million light-years away.
Hubble beg…
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