"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

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