For the first time, a team of astronomers have watched in real time as a red supergiant reaches the end of its life, 120 million light-years from Earth.
Scientists watched the last days of the Red supergiant / Photo: Collage: Today
With the help of two observatories in Hawaii, they observed the supernova, called SN 2020tlf, over the past 130 days, until the very moment of its explosion.
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A powerful flash of light emanating from the star before the explosion suggests that something unknown is going on in its internal structure.
What the death of the Red Supergiant could have looked like
Whatever these changes are, they result in a gigantic outburst of gas before the star collapses and explodes.
Prior to these observations, no one had seen the Red Supergiant show such a burst of brightness and undergo such powerful eruptions before the explosion.
And in their last days, they were much calmer, as if resigned to their fate, writes scitechdaily.com.
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Source: Segodnya
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