{"id":217094,"date":"2025-07-03T06:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/double-detonation-new-image-shows-remains-of-star-destroyed-by-pair-of-explosions"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:23:37","slug":"double-detonation-new-image-shows-remains-of-star-destroyed-by-pair-of-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/double-detonation-new-image-shows-remains-of-star-destroyed-by-pair-of-explosions","title":{"rendered":"Double detonation: New image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/double-detonation-new-image-shows-remains-of-star-destroyed-by-pair-of-explosions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509\u201367.5 with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), they have found patterns that confirm its star suffered a pair of explosive blasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509\u201367.5 with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), they have found patterns that confirm its star suffered a pair of explosive blasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217094","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}