The Dying stars

If you ever wondered how you would know when a star is dying you must read this! The Scientists and astronemers have desided to close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova.

The study, that was submitted in a paper to the "Astrophysical Journal", has  the latest result from an Ohio State University galaxy survey going on with the Large Binocular Telescope, found in Arizona.

In the first survey , the researchers have scaned about 25 nearby galaxies for stars that brighten and go dark in unusual ways, in order to see a few that are about to meet their end. In the three years since the study began, thw "particular unnamed binary system in the Whirlpool Galaxy" was the first among the stars that the astronemers cataloged to produce a supernova.

The astronomers were trying to find out if there are patterns of brightening or dimming that show the end of a stars life. Instead, they saw one star in this "binary system" go dark before the other one exploded in a supernova during the summer of 2011.

Though the scientist are still looking through the data, it's very likely that they didn't get any direct observations of the star that exploded only its much brighter partner.

A principal investigator Christopher Kochanek (professor of astronomy at Ohio State and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology), does not beleive that the first result was a disappointment. "Rather, it's a proof of concept."


I found this Amazingly interesting to find out how it looks like when I star dies, but it also interesting that you cant tell when it died because even when a star dies its lights still shines for a wild and because we dont know how far away from us it is we dont know when it died.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111130142228.htm
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