When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...
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What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...