Berkeley Astronomers Shed Light Onto New Type of Supernova
Posted by Evante Garza-Licudine on Friday, November 06, 2009 11:10 pm

Unlike the above video, the best theory for what causes this type of supernova requires two white dwarfs instead of one.

In a nutshell, UC Berkeley astronomers happened upon some data that classified a supernova (later creatively named SN2002bj) discovered in 2002 as Type II, which turns out to be pretty common, and realized the brightness and duration were closer to read more »

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