LOS ANGELES: Scientists have made a bizarre discovery - a star that refuses to stop shining, despite exploding multiple times over a period of more than 50 years.Supernovae, the explosions of stars, have been observed in the thousands and in all cases they marked the death of a star. "The spectra we obtained at Keck Observatory showed that this supernova looked like nothing we had ever seen before. This, after discovering nearly 5,000 supernovae in the last two decades," said Peter Nugent, Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US. This star somehow survived that explosion and exploded again in 2014. "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work.

Source: Economic Times November 09, 2017 09:11 UTC