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Shreejaya Karantha

UNBELIEVABLE: Weird repeating nova explosion is one of the hottest blasts ever seen | History Defined

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An illustration of a nova explosion erupting after a white dwarf siphons too much material from its larger stellar companion.

Groundbreaking observations of a repeating explosion in space, the recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a, reveal that it's the hottest burst of its kind ever recorded.

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, LMCN 1968-12a is the first recurrent nova outside our galaxy to have been studied in near-infrared light.

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