editor victoria’s note: hmmm. perhaps in alignment with this piece i linked earlier?
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November 19, 2018, University of Sydney
University of Sydney astronomers, working with international colleagues, have found a star system like none seen before in our galaxy.
The system, comprising a pair of scorchingly luminous stars, was nicknamed Apep by the team after the serpentine Egyptian god of chaos. One star is on the brink of a massive supernova explosion.
The findings, published today in Nature Astronomy, are controversial as no gamma-ray burst has ever been detected within our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
Yet in the southern constellation of Norma, nestled just beneath Scorpio’s tail, astronomers have discovered this uniquely beautiful star system. …
“The system might slow down enough so it explodes as a normal supernova rather than a gamma-ray burst. However, in the meantime, it is providing astronomers a ringside seat into beautiful and dangerous physics that we have not seen before in our galaxy.”
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