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Death Star Caught In Act, All Wet

Posted by timothy on from the last-words-of-a-star dept.

NaturePhotog writes: "No, it's not CNN bad-mouthing the Empire's latest creation, it's astronomers catching a dying star in the act of becoming a nebula. Radio waves emitted by water molecules helped provide the age of the event."

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  1. More info... by bartlett's · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was observed using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, which is a (rather cool looking) group of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico. The NRAO press release on K3-35 contains somewhat more detailed information than the CNN article.