fossilesque@mander.xyz to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 months agoJames Webb Telescope Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Starwww.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-linkJames Webb Telescope Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Starwww.smithsonianmag.comfossilesque@mander.xyz to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squareEatYouWell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI skimmed the article and didn’t see any mention of it affecting a different star, so I’m assuming the latter. I feel like if it was a binary system that would have been mentioned fairly early in the article
minus-squareTWeaK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI wasn’t even thinking a binary system necessarily, just a star that happened to take the shockwave badly. But I suppose it would make more sense for that to happen the closer the nearby star is.
I skimmed the article and didn’t see any mention of it affecting a different star, so I’m assuming the latter.
I feel like if it was a binary system that would have been mentioned fairly early in the article
I wasn’t even thinking a binary system necessarily, just a star that happened to take the shockwave badly. But I suppose it would make more sense for that to happen the closer the nearby star is.