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New Type of Supernova Discovered
from National Geographic News
An odd star explosion 160 million light-years away might be the first proof of a theoretical new class of supernova, astronomers suggest.
Dubbed SN 2002bj, the blast was witnessed in 2002 and originally classified as a common Type II supernova. These explosions are thought to occur when the dense iron core of a massive star collapses.
But earlier this year Dovi Poznanski, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, took a closer look at the light signatures recorded during and after the explosion.
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