An international team of astronomers has made a bizarre discovery – a star that refuses to stop shining despite exploding more than once over a period of 50 years. (Image Source: NASA)An international team of astronomers has made a bizarre discovery – a star that refuses to stop shining despite exploding more than once over a period of 50 years. The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, 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. The study calculated that the star that exploded was at least 50 times more massive than the Sun and probably much larger.

Source: Indian Express November 09, 2017 11:48 UTC