"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...
"The discovery of GOTO0650 is really the pinnacle of two years of consistent hard work from our volunteers." Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star ...
Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...