A Cosmic Murder Mystery: The Star That Simply Vanished


Episode Artwork
1.0x
0% played 00:00 00:00
Jul 15 2020 47 mins   1

How can a star disappear? Recently, an enterprising group of astronomers and astrophysicists found themselves transformed into full-on space detectives when a cursory observation of a luminous blue variable star located in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy revealed the star had simply... vanished. This is, according to what our species understands, impossible. Something this big should leave some sort of trace. So what happened? Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they explore the ongoing cosmic conundrum, exploring the story of this galactic noir mystery -- and, ultimately, attempting to learn what led to its untimely disappearance.

Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers