Astronomers Discover New Kind of Thermonuclear Stellar Explosion - Science news - Tasnim News Agency - Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A team of astronomers, with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), have observed a new type of stellar explosion — a micronova.

These outbursts happen on the surface of certain stars, and can each burn through around 3.5 billion Great Pyramids of Giza of stellar material in only a few hours. We have discovered and identified… [+3691 chars]

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