He witnessed a thermonuclear explosion 3,000 light-years away. It came from a white dwarf, a stellar zombie that's devouring matter from a nearby red giant star.
Sometimes studying the outliers is the best way to understand the population. That's why, when T CrB goes off, a large fraction of every telescope in the world is going to be pointed at it, Schaefer says.
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