May
12
We go from gigantic stars blowing up to finding the one of the oldest stars in the Galaxy! This time it is Anna Frebel, the William J. McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow and her metal poor star HE 1523-0901. Yeah, it isn’t the sexiest name for a star, but that’s not what’s important about it. Since Phil [...]
May
8
Archive Post: Big-Badda-Boom!
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I’ve got to brag on a couple of colleagues who were mentioned in the New York Times today.
From the article:
In a cascade of superlatives that belies the traditional cerebral reserve of their profession, astronomers reported today that they had seen the brightest and most powerful stellar explosion ever recorded.…Astronomers have been following the star since [...]