Violent stellar explosion: Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type IIb supernova
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 19:00
in Astronomy & Space
For the first time, astronomers have direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star -- sitting 360 million light years away -- died in a violent explosion known as a Type IIb supernova. Using the iPTF pipeline, researchers caught supernova SN 2013cu within hours of its explosion.