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Israeli Researchers discover a First-of-its-kind Exploding Star that was believed to have existed only in theory

In the not-so-distant past, the discovery of a supernova – an exploding star – was considered a rare occasion. When Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam of the Weizmann Institute’s Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department was a doctoral student, for example, he located seven of them for four years. Today, advanced measuring instruments and analysis methods make it […]