Airborne telescope helps spot 'new' nova
Unusual stellar explosion identified using spectral data from recently retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
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Unusual stellar explosion identified using spectral data from recently retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Astronomers discovered an unusual stellar outburst that they had never observed before. NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used by astronomers to achieve a starry discovery: a new kind of stellar outburst that had never been observed in the system under study.
/PRNewswire/ -- Astronomers using SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, discovered something unique: a new type of stellar outburst that...
Some stars burn bright but brief. These transitory novae pepper the sky, with one flaring into naked eye visibility every few years… but it was a recent brief appearance of just such a 'new star' that gave astronomers a chance to probe the secret