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7 hours ago A rare glimpse of a star before it exploded in a fiery supernova looks nothing like astronomers expected, a new study suggests. Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that a relatively cool, puffy star ended its life in a hydrogen-free supernova. Until now, supernovas without hydrogen were thought to originate only from extremely hot, compact stars. The discovery “is a very important test case for stellar evolution,” says Sung-Chul Yoon, an astrophysicist at Seoul Nationa...

Picking bins crash in Hastings: The physics behind car stuck in orchard crates 6 Apr, 2021 03:08 AM 4 minutes to read A man in his 20s suffered serious injuries after crash on Kenilworth Rd, Mayfair, on Sunday. Photo / Ian Cooper A man in his 20s suffered serious injuries after crash on Kenilworth Rd, Mayfair, on Sunday. Photo / Ian Cooper A car that ended up lodged between five and 10 metres off the ground in a pile of orchard crates in Hastings would have left the ground at a speed o...

A physics professor says the car would've needed to be travelling at 71km/h