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Description:Modeling work performed by the study team suggests that the dead star was originally about 20 times more massive than our sun. He took some shots of the spiral galaxy NGC — which lies about 80 million light-years from Earth, in the southern constellation Sculptor — and spotted something interesting: Nobody had ever captured this elusive event before. But, over the years, it had a lot of mass siphoned away, likely by a companion star, and probably harbored about five solar masses when it exploded, researchers said. They fielded an international team that began studying the light source with bigger and more powerful scopes, both on the ground and in space, less than a day later. In getting his random lucky shots, Buso had bucked odds of 1 in 10 million, or perhaps even 1 in million, study team members said. Great Images of Star Explosions ] The researchers determined that Buso had imaged the "shock breakout" phase of a supernova — the first burst of visible light from an exploding star — according to a new study.

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