A Strange Stellar Explosion with Enduring Brightness

ENN
Nov 10, 2017, 11:37 am55 pts
Sitting in a dwarf galaxy about 500 million light years away, supernova iPTF14hls initially seemed like the ordinary explosion of a red giant star when it was discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey in September 2014. Then the brightness of this event lasted more than four times…

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