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Telescope Kepler detected flash before supernova for the first time

publication date08. 08. 2021
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Scientists found very special flash in the data from the space telescope Kepler mission. It came before SN2017jgh supernova explosion and can tell a lot about the progenitor star. This is the first time such a flash was detected.

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missions icon Kepler 7. 3. 2009 - 15. 11. 2018 Ended: Success 



The cause of the supernova was yellow supergiant star at least a billion light years away. The supernova was a type IIb explosion, in which the progenitor star swallows up to about 100 solar radii. In the middle of this bubble there is a hot helium core, that explodes in great supernova.
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