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The aftermath of an ancient supernova explosion caused by the merger of dead stars has been revealed at a cosmic crime scene.

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The ultimate cosmic “unsolved mystery” has been a mystery for 843 years. And now, space detectives may have finally solved it. In 1181 AD, during the Genpei War in Japan, a mysterious “guest star” briefly appeared over Asian skies. Astronomers puzzled over the brief event until 2021, when a team of researchers tracked its location in space. But the cause of the event, now named Supernova (SN) 1181, remains a mystery.

It wasn’t until a team of scientists used computer modeling and observational analysis to recreate the event that they discovered that it was a supernova caused by the collision of two “dead stars” – white dwarfs. The remnants of the white dwarf structure and the remnants of the double impact formation were left behind by this rare occurrence of two colliding white dwarfs.

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