Cosmic CSI team: Whole Earth Telescope focuses on burned-out stars
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 07:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Like a CSI unit, a team of astronomers at observatories worldwide has been digging around in the innards of dead stars, collecting evidence on how they died. One of the dead stars actually ate part of its neighbor; another has a history of other astronomical hijinks.