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Hubble Uncovers an Unusual Stellar Progenitor to a Supernova

Postby augie on Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:50 am

"This might mean that we are fundamentally wrong about the evolution of massive stars, and that theories need revising,"


Hehe, here we go again! ^*^

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Re: Hubble Uncovers an Unusual Stellar Progenitor to a Supernova

Postby Grav!ty on Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:28 am

This corresponds to the brightness of 1 million suns (at the galaxy's distance of 215 million light-years).
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