{"id":111604,"date":"2020-08-19T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/this-star-appears-to-have-survived-a-supernova"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:26:36","slug":"this-star-appears-to-have-survived-a-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/this-star-appears-to-have-survived-a-supernova","title":{"rendered":"This Star Appears to Have Survived a Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-star-appears-to-have-survived-a-supernova2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems a fusion shield could survive a supernova explosion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what makes this white dwarf unique \u2014 it did undergo nuclear burning, but stopped before it got to iron,\u201d G\u00e4nsicke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/partial-supernova-white-dwarf-blasts-across-milky-way.html\">told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis star is unique because it has all the key features of a white dwarf but it has this very high velocity and unusual abundances that make no sense when combined with its low mass,\u201d Boris G\u00e4nsicke, physics professor at the University of Warwick, UK, and lead author of <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/496\/4\/4079\/5860288\">a paper<\/a> about the research published the <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,<\/em> said in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-blast-star-hurtling-milky.html\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been a type of supernova, but of a kind that that we haven\u2019t seen before,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems a fusion shield could survive a supernova explosion. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes this white dwarf unique \u2014 it did undergo nuclear burning, but stopped before it got to iron,\u201d G\u00e4nsicke told Space.com. \u201cThis star is unique because it has all the key features of a white dwarf but it has this very high velocity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}