The Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Called “The Cow” | SciShow News

The exploding “cow” around 200 million light-years away is running astronomers for a loop, but if it is what some hypothesize, we are witnessing a first for astronomy! Meanwhile, we got photographic evidence of a planet orbiting a binary star system!

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