{"id":3282,"date":"2017-11-29T21:08:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:44","slug":"pythagorean-astronomy-the-star-that-would-not-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2017\/11\/29\/pythagorean-astronomy-the-star-that-would-not-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Pythagorean Astronomy: The Star That Would Not Die"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"

Artist’s impression of the star that would not die. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STSci)<\/p><\/div>\n

When a star explodes in a supernova, it’s generally assumed that once the afterglow has faded the star will never be seen again. But astronomers at Las Cumbres Observatory have found a star that seems to have refused to die. This month, Edward Gomez<\/a> chats to colleague Dr. Iair Arcavi<\/a>, who led the study of this unusual star.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, we’ve had an interstellar visitor in the form of asteroid (or perhaps comet) 1I\/2017 U1, or ‘Oumuamua<\/a> to its friends. There was a new earth-sized planet discovered<\/a> around the nearby Ross 128, and a ring of dust found<\/a> around the Sun’s closest neighbour, Proxima Centauri. And, of course, how would we forget another\u00a0pair of merging black holes<\/a> discovered by the LIGO collaboration – this time the lightest yet.<\/p>\n

For our take on all of these stories, have a listen to this week’s Pythagorean Astronomy.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Nov2017_full_PHYSX.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

An extended edition of an original\u00a0broadcast on 29th November 2017 as part of Pythagoras’ Trousers<\/a> on Radio Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For an archive of Pythagorean Astronomy, visit pythagastro.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a star explodes in a supernova, it’s generally assumed that once the afterglow has faded the star will never be seen again. But astronomers at Las Cumbres Observatory have found a star that seems to have refused to die. This month, Edward Gomez chats to colleague Dr. Iair Arcavi, who led the study of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy-2","category-media","category-pythagorean-astronomy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmOz-QW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2017\/11\/StarWouldntDie.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}