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Stories by Anna Y. Q. Ho
Anna Y. Q. Ho is the Richards Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. She studies the lives and deaths of stars and the physics of those phenomena and other energetic cosmic events.
Space & PhysicsDecember 1, 2020
Strange Supernovae Upend Expectations
Most stars die in fairly predictable ways, but astronomers have discovered a growing catalog of unusual stellar deaths that challenge the traditional picture