Milky way it is constantly monitored by NASA in order to discover as many of its secrets as possible, and today we are talking about a new such discovery that targets the center of the galaxy. More precisely, NASA claims to have discovered there the first for the Milky Way, that is, an explosion of a star, a supernova, which was initially wrongly classified by the American space agency, but which is now explained correctly.
Milky way it would have near its center a supernova of a star that is known to scientists as a "white dwarf", i.e. a star similar to the sun in the center of the solar system. Unlike the supernovae usually detected in the Milky Way, those from NASA have now discovered for the first time one of the Iax type, an apparently special type of supernova that when it explodes leaves various materials in the universe, but it is not as strong like the "normal" ones.
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Milky way a supernova of this kind has not been discovered until now, although NASA has observed them in other galaxies, but could not study them because they were at much greater distances from Earth. NASA says that supernovae of this kind are extremely important to the universe because they remove certain types of material that can support life in various areas of the cosmos, and perhaps this explosion in the Milky Way would be useful for what is near it.
“This interesting object, located near the center of the Milky Way, is a supernova remnant called Sagittarius A East or Sgr A East for short. Based on the Chandra data, astronomers previously classified the object as the remains of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. Using longer Chandra observations, a team of astronomers concluded that the object is leftover from a different type of supernova. The Chandra data revealed that Sgr A East, however, did not come from a regular type Ia. Instead, it appears to belong to a special group of supernovae that produce relatively different amounts of elements than the traditional Ias type and less powerful explosions. This subset is called 'Type Iax', a potentially important member of the supernova family."
Milky way it has a huge black hole in its center, and this explosion took place at a very small distance from it, so it is possible that it had an effect on what happened there. NASA researchers looked very carefully at what happened there, and analyzed everything closely to reach the conclusion that such an event took place in the Milky Way, so we are talking about a very interesting and important discovery.
Milky way it will continue to be monitored very carefully by those from NASA, and it remains to be seen what exactly will be discovered based on the analyzes in the next period.
