{"id":133721,"date":"2022-01-07T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/giant-dying-star-explodes-as-scientists-watch-in-real-time-a-first-for-astronomy"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:22:43","slug":"giant-dying-star-explodes-as-scientists-watch-in-real-time-a-first-for-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/giant-dying-star-explodes-as-scientists-watch-in-real-time-a-first-for-astronomy","title":{"rendered":"Giant dying star explodes as scientists watch in real time \u2014 a first for astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-dying-star-explodes-as-scientists-watch-in-real-time-a-first-for-astronomy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers were first alerted to the star\u2019s unusual activity 130 days before it went supernova. Bright radiation was detected in the summer of 2020 by the University of Hawai\u02bbi Institute for Astronomy Pan-STARRS telescope on Maui\u2019s Haleakal\u0101.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the fall of that year, the researchers witnessed a supernova in the same spot.<\/p>\n<p>They observed it using the W.M. Keck Observatory\u2019s Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on Maunakea, Hawai\u2019i, and named the supernova 2020tlf. Their observations revealed that there was material around the star when it exploded \u2014 the bright gas that the star violently kicked away from itself over the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers were first alerted to the star\u2019s unusual activity 130 days before it went supernova. Bright radiation was detected in the summer of 2020 by the University of Hawai\u02bbi Institute for Astronomy Pan-STARRS telescope on Maui\u2019s Haleakal\u0101. Then, in the fall of that year, the researchers witnessed a supernova in the same spot. They observed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133721","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}