Astronomers watch a star explode in real time
Feb 17, 2022
2 minutes
WORDS BRANDON SPECKTOR
stronomers watched a giant star blow up in a fiery supernova for the first time ever, and the spectacle was even more explosive than researchers anticipated. Scientists began watching the doomed star, a red supergiant now designated SN 2020tlf, located about 120 million light years from
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