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08-18-2016, 12:24 AM
Star caught exploding after long hibernation
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In 2009, astro**mers watched as a star *suddenly and unexpectedly brightened.*
This brightening event, which happened in the V1213 Centauri star system, grew more and more lumi**us over the course of several days, putting on a show for people on the ground. But that extreme brightening didn't come from just anywhere.
A new study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature19066) in the journal Nature this week tracks the evolution of the star system's brightening and eventual fading using data collected by a telescope, which just happened to be keeping an eye on its part of the sky.*
SEE ALSO: Life's building blocks mapped in nebula 1,400 light-years from Earth (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/building-blocks-of-life-found-in-nebula/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/**va-explosion-hibernating-star/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In 2009, astro**mers watched as a star *suddenly and unexpectedly brightened.*
This brightening event, which happened in the V1213 Centauri star system, grew more and more lumi**us over the course of several days, putting on a show for people on the ground. But that extreme brightening didn't come from just anywhere.
A new study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature19066) in the journal Nature this week tracks the evolution of the star system's brightening and eventual fading using data collected by a telescope, which just happened to be keeping an eye on its part of the sky.*
SEE ALSO: Life's building blocks mapped in nebula 1,400 light-years from Earth (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/building-blocks-of-life-found-in-nebula/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/**va-explosion-hibernating-star/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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