A star whose life ended in a cataclysmic explosion has been recorded by the recently installed National Astronomical Observatory in Nadur, Gozo.
Prof Joseph Caruana (Department of Physics and Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy of the University of Malta), explained that the star lies in th
Supernova event – when a massive star, several times greater than Sun, rapidly collapses and explodes – of 21 million years ago reaches Gozo astronomical observatory
The Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy (ISSA) of the University of Malta has started operating a National Astronomical Observatory in Gozo.
Project coordinator Prof. Joseph Caruana, astrophysicist at the Department of Physics and ISSA, explained that the specific site had been selected fol