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How To Detonate A Star

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein11 October 20174 Comments

How does a star the mass of our Sun explode to become brighter than a galaxy? The key may be too much helium.

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Lost And Found

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein16 May 20165 Comments

The brightest supernova ever observed in history.

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Dust Upon The Moon

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein20 April 20163 Comments

A new study of Moon dust finds evidence of a supernova that occurred just 300 light years away.

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When Two Become One

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein4 April 20160 Comments

New observations support the idea that some supernovae are caused by the collision of white dwarf stars.

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Duck And Cover

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein25 March 20160 Comments

What do you do when you see the flash? In the case of a dying star, you know a supernova is coming.

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Brighter Than Twenty Galaxies

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein15 January 20161 Comment

A supernova known as ASASSN-15lh is more luminous than any supernova ever seen.

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The Crab Nebula

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein29 November 20152 Comments

The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that occurred in 1054 AD.

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Total Eclipse of the Heart

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein19 July 20152 Comments

In August of last year a star briefly brightened by a factor of 5 in a single day.

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Play It Again, Sam

In Supernovae by Brian Koberlein8 March 20153 Comments

Light from a supernova has been gravitationally lensed by a galaxy, and as a result we can observe the supernova over and over gain.

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Brian Koberlein is an astrophysics professor who can't stop rambling about how awesome the Universe is.