In recent years, a handful of unusual stars have been cited as evidence for extraordinarily powerful stellar explosions called hypernovae. New research suggests these stars can be explained without ...

In Latin, nova means “new.” In astronomy, that refers to a temporary bright “star” in the night sky. But the causes of these brief but brilliant stars are varied. Classical novae occur in a binary ...

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Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. We have attempted to date the supernova explosion of SN2003dh spectroscopically, under the assumption of its parallel spectral evolution with ...