Detecting a star exploding behind a cloud of dust

While astronomers use a Spitzer space telescope to search for a supermassive black hole in the center of a distant galaxy, the team suddenly discovers an unusually hot cloud of dust. After further study, scientists concluded that abnormal temperatures caused by the explosion of a large star were more than 50 times greater than our sun .

But before it exploded, it had twice turned on gas into space, then gas condensed into a cloud of dust and absorbed the heat released from the explosion and transformed into heat so that the infrared radiation detector of the new spitzer telescope discovered.

Astronomers presented this finding in Astrophysical magazine in October 2010. Astronomers have predicted that in about a decade, the remnants of the explosion will collide with the dust cloud.

If this happens, the X-ray telescope will detect the effect. And a type of meteor that was not observed before will also be identified.

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