We all know what happens to most stars in the final stages of their lives: they explode violently in an event called a supernova, when they run out of “fuel” and collapse themselves. This led to some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, marking the end of life for a star. So when astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to observe a “dying” star, they thought they would see the same predictable events. What they see is a…
