Description
Press release from UC Berkeley News:
January 6, 2022
Astronomers have long suspected that massive stars become red supergiants at the end of their lives, hiccup a few times and then explode in a classic supernova visible across the universe. But no one had ever seen this scenario play out in a single star.
Now, thanks to coordinated observations by numerous ground- and space-based telescopes, astronomers have recorded such a sequence for a star about 120 million light years from Earth and, before it collapsed and exploded, about 10 times the mass of the sun.
This press release was produced by UC Berkeley News. The views expressed here are the author's own.
Discussion
By posting you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy.