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‘Partial supernova’ blasts white dwarf star across the Milky Way

A strange white dwarf star hurtling through the Milky Way may be the survivor of a ‘partial supernova’, a new study finds.

White dwarfs are the cool, dim Earth-sized cores of dead stars that are left behind after average-sized

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