{"id":165765,"date":"2023-06-14T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/astronomers-capture-rare-bizarre-star-explosion-that-could-help-uncover-the-mysteries-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:23:44","slug":"astronomers-capture-rare-bizarre-star-explosion-that-could-help-uncover-the-mysteries-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/astronomers-capture-rare-bizarre-star-explosion-that-could-help-uncover-the-mysteries-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers capture rare \u201cbizarre\u201d star explosion that could help uncover \u201cthe mysteries of the universe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-capture-rare-bizarre-star-explosion-that-could-help-uncover-the-mysteries-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeing a supernova, or an exploding star, is a unique spectacle in itself. But recently, astronomers have found something even more unique: A star explosion so \u201cextremely warped\u201d that it looked like it was multiple images in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>So how did this happen?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not magic, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/astronomers-discover-extremely-warped-supernova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California Institute of Technology<\/a>, but an effect known as \u201cgravitational lensing,\u201d which happens when gravity from a dense object in space \u201cdistorts and brightens the light of an object behind it.\u201d In the case of supernova SN Zwicky, it was the gravity of another galaxy that impacted its appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing a supernova, or an exploding star, is a unique spectacle in itself. But recently, astronomers have found something even more unique: A star explosion so \u201cextremely warped\u201d that it looked like it was multiple images in the sky. So how did this happen? It\u2019s not magic, according to the California Institute of Technology, but [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165765","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=165765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}