A Star Threw Off a Sun's Worth of Material. And Then it Exploded! - Universe Today
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A supernova explosion in the Pinwheel Galaxy is giving astronomers a new look at what happens in a supermassive star the year before it dies.
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Webb telescope spots a star on the brink of exploding
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A New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole
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Webb telescope spots a star on the brink of exploding
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Astronomers may have finally seen a star become a black hole
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A record breaking supernova just X-rayed the entire Universe - Big Think
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A Cosmologist Explains How Quark Stars Form
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Distant black hole eats half a sun a year, blasts leftovers at us
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How massive stars in binary systems turn into carbon factories
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A Nearby Neutron Star Collision Could Cause Calamity on Earth