{"id":193375,"date":"2024-07-23T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/astronomers-spotted-a-red-supergiant-just-before-it-exploded-in-a-massive-supernova"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:34:38","slug":"astronomers-spotted-a-red-supergiant-just-before-it-exploded-in-a-massive-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/astronomers-spotted-a-red-supergiant-just-before-it-exploded-in-a-massive-supernova","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers spotted a red supergiant just before it exploded in a massive supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-spotted-a-red-supergiant-just-before-it-exploded-in-a-massive-supernova.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was discovered just 130 days before exploding using two telescopes in Hawaii, allowing a team of experts to investigate it before it exploded in a massive supernova.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a breakthrough in our understanding of what massive stars do moments before they die,\u201d said Dr. Wynn Jacobson-Gal\u00e1n, the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was discovered just 130 days before exploding using two telescopes in Hawaii, allowing a team of experts to investigate it before it exploded in a massive supernova. \u201cThis is a breakthrough in our understanding of what massive stars do moments before they die,\u201d said Dr. Wynn Jacobson-Gal\u00e1n, the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193375","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}