SN 2005E: A New Class Of Supernovae?
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 13:54
in Astronomy & Space
In the last yen years, astronomers have discovered scads of strange exploding stars, one-offs that may point to new and unusual physics. Supernova (SN) 2005E, discovered five years ago by the University of California, Berkeley's Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), is one of eight known "calcium-rich supernovae" that seem to stand out from the rest. read more