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Supernova Caught In First Hour Of Its Explosion Reveals A Totally Different Way For Stars To Die
Two international teams confirmed the second observed X-ray shock breakout, using rapid follow-up to map the stripped star’s environment before collapse.
Telescopes watched this outburst from its earliest hours, something only definitively achieved once before. When they analyzed the data, it turned out this was no ordinary supernova.