Monday, June 30, 2014

The fieriest star explosion I've ever seen is not even a supernova

The fieriest star explosion I've ever seen is not even a supernova


The star Wolf-Rayet WR124 disintegrates in the constellation Sagitta, 10,900 light years from Earth. The fiery explosive halo is made of "glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times more massive than the Earth being expelled by violent stellar winds." And the incredible thing is that this is not even a supernova.


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