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A star that exploded in 2018 can be assigned to an exotic supernova type for the first time. This is how the Crab Nebula may have formed.
As early as 1980, the Japanese astrophysicist Ken'ichi Nomoto proclaimed an unusual type of star death. In addition to the well-known explosion types of supernovae with massive stars and with
