#  Pan-STARRS Finds a "Lost" Supernova - read CFA press release 

 





March 11, 2013

 

 

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Cambridge, MA - The star Eta Carinae is ready to blow. 170 years ago, this 100-solar-mass object belched out several suns' worth of gas in an eruption that made it the second-brightest star after Sirius. That was just a precursor to the main event, since it will eventually go supernova.

[CFA Press Release](http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2013/pr201308.html)

The preprint of the paper is available on this page:

<https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nsanders/papers/12sk/summary.htm>









 

 

 



 

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