{"id":29316,"date":"2010-10-17T08:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/giant-star-goes-supernova-smothered-by-its-own-dust\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:10:25","slug":"giant-star-goes-supernova-smothered-by-its-own-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/giant-star-goes-supernova-smothered-by-its-own-dust.php","title":{"rendered":"Giant Star Goes Supernova, Smothered by its Own Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/012aa_487865main_pia13478-4x3_946-710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/012aa_487865main_pia13478-4x3_946-710.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><div><span>Astronomers using <a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/\"><span>NASA<\/span><\/a>'s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered that a giant star in a remote galaxy ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang.<p>Researchers suspect that this odd event -- the first one of its kind ever viewed by astronomers &ndash; was more common early in the universe.<\/p><p>It also hints at what we would see if the brightest star system in our <a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/\"><span>Milky Way galaxy<\/span><\/a> exploded, or went supernova.<\/p><p>The discovery is reported in a paper published online in the Astrophysical Journal. The lead author is Christopher Kochanek, a professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, Columbus.<\/p><p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/spitzer\/news\/spitzer20101012.html\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/spitzer\/news\/spitzer20101012.html<\/a><br><\/p><\/span><\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/012aa_1205796008215741128-1409685803380912215?l=spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered that a giant star in a remote galaxy ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang.Researchers suspect that this odd event -- the first one of its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/giant-star-goes-supernova-smothered-by-its-own-dust.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}