NASA's Hubble Finds Supernova Star System Linked to Potential 'Zombie Star'

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats Supernovae are the most powerful stellar explosions in the universe. Some of them are produced by the detonation of a white dwarf, the stripped-down core of an ordinary star at the end of its life. But 12 years ago, astronomers began noticing weak stellar blasts, a kind of mini-supernova. When one such explosion occurred in the galaxy NGC 1309, astronomers looking through Hubble archival images found for the first time the s...