{"id":139061,"date":"2022-05-07T22:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/supernova-reveals-its-secrets-to-team-of-astronomers"},"modified":"2022-05-07T22:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T03:02:35","slug":"supernova-reveals-its-secrets-to-team-of-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/supernova-reveals-its-secrets-to-team-of-astronomers","title":{"rendered":"Supernova reveals its secrets to team of astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supernova-reveals-its-secrets-to-team-of-astronomers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international group of astronomers led by Benjamin Thomas of The University of Texas at Austin has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the university\u2019s McDonald Observatory to unlock a puzzling mystery about a stellar explosion discovered several years ago and evolving even now. The results, published in today\u2019s issue of <i>The Astrophysical Journal<\/i>, will help astronomers better understand the process of how massive stars live and die.<\/p>\n<p>When an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/exploding+star\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">exploding star<\/a> is first detected, astronomers around the world begin to follow it with telescopes as the light it gives off changes rapidly over time. They see the light from a supernova get brighter, eventually peak, and then start to dim. By noting the times of these peaks and valleys in the light\u2019s brightness, called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+curve\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light curve<\/a>,\u201d as well as the characteristic wavelengths of light emitted at different times, they can deduce the physical characteristics of the system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what\u2019s really cool about this kind of science is that we\u2019re looking at the emission that\u2019s coming from matter that\u2019s been cast off from the progenitor system before it exploded as a supernova,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cAnd so this makes a sort of time machine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international group of astronomers led by Benjamin Thomas of The University of Texas at Austin has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the university\u2019s McDonald Observatory to unlock a puzzling mystery about a stellar explosion discovered several years ago and evolving even now. The results, published in today\u2019s issue of The Astrophysical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139061","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=139061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}