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Supernova: A composite of images from Las Combes Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope of the electron-capture supernova SN2018zd (bright circle on the right), and the galaxy where it occurred, NGC 2146. Credit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory

A massive explosion in space solved a thousand-year-old mystery

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When the stars aligned: A star that ended its life in a distant galaxy and exploded with great force solved an 11th-century astronomical mystery
Image: A disk of gas feeding a massive black hole, while emitting radiation" Credit: Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Israeli astronomers have identified an unknown phenomenon that feeds and grows giant black holes very quickly

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The galaxy M51 and the supernova inside it as photographed by the director of the observatory at the Weizmann Institute, Ilan Manolis,

A newly discovered exploding star in the galaxy M51 was photographed at the new observatory of the Weizmann Institute of Science

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