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Solving the mystery of the wimpy supernova

  • Written by Kishalay De, Graduate student of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
The bubbly cloud, called Puppis A, is an irregular shock wave, generated by a supernova that would have been witnessed on Earth 3,700 years ago. NASA

A spectacular supernova explosion, more than a billion times brighter than our sun, marked the birth of a neutron star orbiting its hot and dense companion. Now these two dense remnants are destined...

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