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Astronomers witness start of star's explosive death

                   
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May 21, 2008
        
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By Seth Borenstein | Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - On Jan. 9, astronomers used a NASA X-ray satellite to spy on a star already well into its death throes, when another star in the same galaxy started to explode. "It's like winning the astronomy lottery," said lead author Alicia Soderberg,... [read full story]                    

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Swift Satellite Observes A Supernova Explosion In Real-Time

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Supernova Caught Starting to Explode for First Time

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Swift Satellite Observes A Supernova Explosion In Real-Time

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May 22, 2008
        

London, UK (SPX) May 22, 2008 - UK astronomers are part of an international team that has used the Swift satellite to observe the first moments of a supernova explosion as it happens. The results are presented in a paper in the journal Nature today (22 May 2008) led by Dr. Alicia Soderberg of...

Scientists witness start of star's explosive death

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May 22, 2008
        

Associated Press - May 21, 2008 9:23 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - "A star exploded right before my eyes" -- the words of 1 astrophysicist who witnessed the start of 1 of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova. She says its like "winning the astronomy...

                   

UW Researcher, Others Witness Explosion of a Star

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May 22, 2008
        

Posted on: Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 21:00 CDT By Ron Seely, The Wisconsin State Journal May 21--David Pooley has been drawn to the mysteries of black holes and strange stars since he was a boy enthralled by science fiction. But it is unlikely that the young Pooley, growing up in New Orleans, would...

Astronomers capture footage of supernova explosion

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May 22, 2008
        

BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. astronomers have captured footage of a star blowing itself to smithereens, according to U.S. media reports quoting Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Alicia Soderberg, the leading author, also an astrophysics researcher at Princeton University, and her...

Scientists witness start of star's explosive death

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May 22, 2008
        

WASHINGTON (AP) — “A star exploded right before my eyes” — the words of one astrophysicist who witnessed the start of one of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova. She says its like “winning the astronomy lottery.” In January, astronomers used...

Astronomers get grandstand view of supernova

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May 22, 2008
        

PARIS: Astronomers said they had witnessed for the first time how a dying star erupted into a supernova, one of the mightiest yet most elusive sights in the Universe. Supernovae are massive stars that run out of fuel, collapse under the weight of their own gravity and become an ultra-dense object...

                   
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The Beginning of a Star's Explosive End

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May 22, 2008
        

By Phil Berardelli ScienceNOW Daily News In a stroke of unprecedented good luck, an international team of astronomers has caught a stellar explosion called supernova at the very beginning of the blast. The supernova called 2008D neatly and surprisingly solved such problems for its discoverers,...

                   

Scientists see supernova in action

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May 22, 2008
        

A star trembled on the brink of eternity. Far away on the day of Jan. 9, Earth time, a satellite telescope by the name of Swift, which happened to be gazing at the star's galaxy, a smudge of stars 88 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx, recorded an unexpected burst of invisible...

                   

Witnessing the explosive end of a star

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May 21, 2008
        

WASHINGTON: In a stroke of cosmic luck, astronomers for the first time witnessed the start of one of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova. On January 9, astronomers used a Nasa X-ray satellite to spy on a star already well into its death...

                   
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Swift Catches First Supernova in the Act of Exploding (21 May 2008)

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May 21, 2008
        

Robert Naeye / Rob Gutro Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Release No. 08-43 GREENBELT, Md. -- Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASA’s Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. "For years we have dreamed of seeing a star just as...

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