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James Webb Telescope Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I skimmed the article and didn't see any mention of it affecting a different star, so I'm assuming the latter.

I feel like if it was a binary system that would have been mentioned fairly early in the article

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't even thinking a binary system necessarily, just a star that happened to take the shockwave badly. But I suppose it would make more sense for that to happen the closer the nearby star is.