In a star's final days, astronomers hunt 'signal of impending doom'

ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2011) — An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova.The study, submitted in a paper to the Astrophysical Journal, provides the latest result from an Ohio State University galaxy survey underway with the Large Binocular Telescope, located in Arizona.In the first survey of its kind, the researchers have been scanning 25 nearby galaxies for stars...

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