Wednesday, April 22, 2009
When Stars Explode
Watch the SDSU Live interview with astronomer Doug Leonard, whose recent discovery challenges prevailing theories about exploding stars.
Watch the interview
- from SDSU Live April 15 broadcast
These photographs from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been used to uncover the progenitor star to a supernova that exploded in 2005. To the surprise of astronomers, the progenitor is a rare class
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In a recently published article in Nature, SDSU astronomer Doug Leonard and a co-researcher from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science reported their surprising discovery of the most massive star ever confirmed to have ended its life as a supernova.
According to conventional theory, the star -- more than a million times brighter than the sun -- should not have exploded, but it did, probably leaving behind a massive black hole.
Leonard discussed astronomy, his research and the significance of these new findings as part of an interview that was broadcast live on April 15.
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