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What Happens To The Surrounding Stars When One Of Them Goes Supernova?

By Ria Misra Published March 24, 2014, 11:42 am ET

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What happens to a pair of binary stars when one of them goes supernova? These gorgeous shots of a binary star, in which one went supernova and the other remained intact, gives us one answer to that question.

https://gizmodo.com/companion-to-a-supernova-1549709337

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