Friday 12 September 2014

Lurking bright blue star caught!

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Lurking bright blue star caught!
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 12, 2014 - A team led by Gaston Folatelli at the Kavli IPMU, the University of Tokyo, has found evidence of a hot binary companion star to a yellow supergiant star, which had become a bright supernova. The existence of the companion star had been predicted by the same team on the basis of numerical calculations. This finding provides the last link in a chain of observations that have so far supported ... more


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