Like a CSI unit, a team of astronomers at observatories
worldwide has been digging around in the innards of dead stars, collecting
evidence on how they died. One of the dead stars actually ate part of its
neighbor; another has a history of other astronomical hijinks.
The Whole Earth Telescope (WET), a worldwide network of
observatories with its command center at the University of Delaware,
periodically focuses on stars of scientific interest in the galaxy’s stellar
graveyard.