GLOW IN THE DARK
Eleven years ago this week, an astronomer working at an observatory in Chile spotted a bright ``new'' star 167,000 light-years from Earth. What he actually was seeing were the death throes of an aging star--20 times the mass of our Sun--that blew itself apart in a supernova explosion, called 1987A...
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