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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
133. A Wrinkle Occurred | The Nature of Science with Larry Molnar
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Larry Molnar spent years with his astronomy students studying a contact binary star system. Their observations and data eventually led them to make the claim that the stars were headed toward an explosion called a luminous red nova, a major discovery. The story of these stars and of the scientists who study them highlight the ways that science leads to knowledge about the world, and not always in straightforward ways.
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