Yet another 'baffling' star not playing by the rules

[jackokie]

Space.com article: 'Oddball' star shocks scientists with strange supernova

A massive star's "oddball" violent death has scientists puzzled.

In a new study, an international team of researchers used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to document the demise of a giant star 35 million light-years from Earth. )

Those Hubble images showed something strange: The cool, yellow star had no hydrogen in its outer layer.

"We haven't seen this scenario before," lead study author Charles Kilpatrick, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University in Illinois, said in a statement.

"If a star explodes without hydrogen, it should be extremely blue — really, really hot," Kilpatrick explained. "It's almost impossible for a star to be this cool without having hydrogen in its outer layer. We looked at every single stellar model that could explain a star like this, and every single model requires that the star had hydrogen, which, from its supernova, we know it did not. It stretches what's physically possible."

link: https://www.space.com/oddball-supernova ... -telescope

Sigh: "We looked at every single stellar model...."

[BeAChooser]

Yep. It's pretty clear that mainstream astro*physicists* don't have A CLUE what is going on out there.

ll those big expensive telescopes, space probes and what not have basically been money wasted the past half century ... or more.