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After an international team of astronomers discovered the first signs of a new type of supernova, the researchers turned to the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea to confirm their sighting. The find is expected to provide new insights into the life and death of stars and help to verify a four-decades-old theory and a mystery documented about 1,000 years ago. The study is published in
“One of the main questions in astronomy is to compare how stars evolve and how they die,” said Stefano Valenti, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Davis and a member of the team that discovered and described supernova (
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