‘Oddball’ star shocks scientists with strange supernova – Space.com

This artistic visualization shows a blue star stripping the hydrogen away from a yellow supergiant star.  (Image credit: Kavli IPMU/Aya Tsuboi)
A massive star’s “oddball” violent death has scientists puzzled. 
In a new study, an international team of researchers used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to document the demise of a giant star 35 million light-years from Earth. 
Those Hubble images showed something strange: The cool, yellow star had no hydrogen in its outer layer. 
“We haven’t seen…

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