Are these the loneliest SUPERNOVAE ever seen? Exiled stars with pitch black skies spotted exploding
Channel: Aliens insider
Date: 2015-06-27

Are these the loneliest SUPERNOVAE ever seen? Exiled stars with pitch black skies spotted exploding in intergalactic space
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Three supernova have been found that exploded in the dark emptiness of intergalactic space, far from any other galaxies or stars.

Owing to their remoteness, any planets around the stars would have had nearly starless skies - before being obliterated.

And a fourth supernova found might be the first ever detected inside a globular cluster - a small, dense cluster of thousands of stars.
The discovery was made by the University of California, Berkeley using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Images revealed how all three stars, each about a billion light-years from Earth, exploded as Type 1a supernovae while remaining in intergalactic space.

These types of supernova occur when a small white dwarf star takes on too much additional material, and ultimately explodes under its own mass.