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Star's death captured as it happened

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

January 2026

Fast action meant the supernova shockwave was revealed in a way never seen before

Astronomers have captured the earliest moments of a supernova ripping through a star. How such a shock is launched and propagates through a massive star when it dies is a decades-long puzzle, but swift reactions by an international team of scientists caught data on the shape of the blast only 26 hours after it happened. Supernova SN 2024ggi was first detected on the night of 10 April 2024 in the ga

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