{"id":226609,"date":"2025-12-06T00:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/close-up-images-show-how-stars-explode-in-real-time"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:27:15","slug":"close-up-images-show-how-stars-explode-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/close-up-images-show-how-stars-explode-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Close-up images show how stars explode in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/close-up-images-show-how-stars-explode-in-real-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions\u2014known as novae\u2014within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these explosions are more complex than previously thought, with multiple outflows of material and, in some cases, dramatic delays in the ejection process.<\/p>\n<p>The international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-025-02725-1\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published in the journal <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i>, used a cutting-edge technique called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-07-star-chara-array-reveal-decade.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">interferometry<\/a> at the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA Array) in California. This approach allowed scientists to combine the light from multiple telescopes, achieving the sharp resolution needed to directly image the rapidly evolving explosions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe images give us a close-up view of how material is ejected away from the star during the explosion,\u201d said Georgia State\u2019s Gail Schaefer, director of the CHARA Array. \u201cCatching these transient events requires flexibility to adapt our nighttime schedule as new targets of opportunity are discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions\u2014known as novae\u2014within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these explosions are more complex than previously thought, with multiple outflows of material and, in some cases, dramatic delays in the ejection process. The international study, published in the journal Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226609","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=226609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}