#zombie star

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Astronomers from Western Sydney University, led by astrophysicist Miroslav Filipovic, have discovered an almost perfectly spherical object in our Milky Way galaxy.

Nicknamed “Teleios”, this mysterious structure was detected using the ASKAP radio telescope. Scientists believe it may be a rare supernova remnant — but its near-perfect symmetry and missing X-ray signals make it a true cosmic mystery.

Is this a typical stellar explosion… or something we don’t fully understand yet?

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Shared from Ground

“Estrela zumbi“: astrônomos acham restos de supernova que brilhou há mil anos | CNN Brasil

Possível fruto de explosão incompleta intriga astrônomos por pertencer a classe rara

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fucking epic headline

[talesofdrunkennessandcruelty]

'Zombie star' amazes astronomers by surviving multiple supernovae

[one-of-the-birds]

ZOMBIE STAR

Not sure if anyone has read the updated articles about this “zombie” star named iPTF14hls, but it is really interesting. Below are some links to different articles talking about it (the date says November 2017, but they have recently updated the story today!!)

CNN

EarthSky: http://earthsky.org/space/zombie-star-iptf14hls-supernova-1954-1993

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/08/zombie-star-amazes-astronomers-by-surviving-multiple-supernovae

[xyhor-astronomy]

When a star more massive than our sun reaches the end of its life cycle, it goes in a spectacular blaze of glory known as a supernova. This explosion indicates that the star is dunzo, dead, or whatever we call it in the parlance of our times. But a new study found that one unusual star zombie-Jon-Snowed itself and as an astronomer tells Inverse, no one knows quite how.

[theverge]

Zombie white dwarf star caught destroying an orbiting planet    

More than 570 light years away in the constellation Virgo, a disintegrating planet orbits around a white dwarf — the leftovers of a yellow star after it died. The cause of the planet's demise is the zombie star itself; the white dwarf is extremely dense, and its enormous gravitational pull is tearing the rock apart, creating an enormous cloud of dust and debris that follows the planet on its orbit.

This dance of the dead was observed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft last year. The discovery of the planetary system is the first of its kind. It helps to confirm what many scientists have suspected for years: that planets can actually orbit white dwarfs.

— Loren Grush for The Verge

[messytimetravel]

"Zombie Star" in Deep Space NASA