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Astronomers find signatures of a 'messy' star that made its companion go supernova
- January 13, 2019
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Astronomers announced that they have identified the type of companion star that made its partner in a binary system, a carbon-oxygen white dwarf star, explode. Through repeated observations of SN 2015cp, a supernova 545 million light years away, the team detected hydrogen-rich debris that the companion star had shed prior to the explosion.
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Unkown User, "Astronomers find signatures of a 'messy' star that made its companion go supernova", MachPrinciple, January 13, 2019, https://machprinciple.com/post/Astronomers-find-signatures-of-a-messy-star-that-made-its-companion-go-supernova
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