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CK Vulpeculae, an hourglass-shaped remnant of a collision between a white and brown dwarf
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Minnesota Astrophysicists Help Spot Rare Stellar Collision

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Professors Charles Woodward and Robert Gehrz are part of the ALMA collaboration that discovered the object, long thought to be a nova, is actually a remnant of a rare type of solar collision.

MACS 1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Farthest Star Helps Probe Dark Matter

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Assistant Professor Patrick Kelly led a team of researchers that set a distance record and discovered the farthest individual star ever seen.

Galaxy NGC 2403 with SN54J in the upper left corner.
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Long-standing Supernova Mystery Solved

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Professors Roberta Humphreys and Kris Davidson and graduate student Michael Gordon in the School of Physics and Astronomy and their collaborator Schuyler Van Dyk at Caltech have solved the 63-year-old mystery of a supernova that wasn’t.

Lindsay Glesener and student, Kendra Bergstedt
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Space Physicist to provide exciting research opportunities for students

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Lindsay Glesener is a faculty member in the School of Physics and Astronomy, studying high energy events in the Sun.