Oct 13 2020 32 mins 35
Don’t ever accuse us of not comprehensively covering every kind of exploding star. This week we gather up all the leftover ways that stars partially or fully explode, or don’t. Probably. Enjoy. Download MP3 | Show Notes | Transcript Show Notes VIDEO: What is a Nova? How Does It Compare to a Supernova? (Fraser Cain) Ep. 579: White and Black Dwarfs Ep. 14: We’re all Made of Supernovae Eta Carinae (NASA) New Clues About Eta Carinae – The Star That Wouldn’t Die (SciTechDaily) The Homunculus Nebula (Cosmos Magazine) What’s A Kilonova? You’re Looking At It! (Universe Today) Binary Star (Swinburne University) VIDEO: Image Sequence of V838 Monocerotis Epochs (Hubble Space Telescope) Light Echoes From a Red Supergiant (NASA) Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) Finding the Helium Flash (astrobites) These Two Stars Might Merge in an Explosion Visible From Earth This Century (Discover Magazine) Gamma-ray Bursts (NASA) PODCAST: Sakurai’s Object (Stardate) White Dwarf Stars (NASA) V603 Aquilae (Wikipedia) The Supernova That Wasn’t (Science Magazine) Type IIn Supernova (Swinburne University) Novae (2012 edition) (AAVSO) Shedding New Light on Luminous Blue Variable Stars (NERSC) Caught in the act: UW astronomers find a rare supernova ‘impostor’ in a nearby galaxy (University of Washington) P Cygni (AAVSO) You Know About A Supernova. What About An “Unnova”? Vera Rubin Observatory (LSST)
