Echoes of Monster Star's "Great Eruption" Found—A First
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed reflections of light from a "supernova impostor"—the 19th-century eruption of Eta Carinae.
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