Astronomy / Space 'Zombie' star survives supernova
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It's pretty strange, whatever it is!
Arguably as odd as this one reported last year, with a star periodically launching giant plasma balls every 8.5 years. Possibly from a binary companion passing through the main star
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-detects-giant-cannonballs-shooting-from-star
Arguably as odd as this one reported last year, with a star periodically launching giant plasma balls every 8.5 years. Possibly from a binary companion passing through the main star
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-detects-giant-cannonballs-shooting-from-star
I remember a couple of years ago when they thought that SN 2012Z could be evidence for a 1aX supernova event at about the same time as iPTF14hls, was identified as a possible candidate. It's exciting that there is such an observation, and I expect others to be discovered in the future.Curious as to how to account for the high levels of Hydrogen (which you would expect by now to have been mostly exhausted) in such a massive, 100 solar-mass star that is otherwise showing signs of 'death throes'.https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin...sa.gov/cgi-bin/sdc/list?seq=sw00033788003.013
Pulsational Pairt instability is when a vertex is formed of perturbative scattering matrix between sufficiently high frequency photons propagates electron-positron pairs. As such, there is a pressure change as the particles attract each other both electromagnetically and in principle, gravitationally - scaled up to the number of events within the core and this sudden collapse is a mammoth 'hiccough' as the outer layers are expelled at a phenomenal rate.
Interesting, it's funny how reality is weirder than science fiction. What else are we gonna find strange next
The universe teaches us every day. Thanks for the link