While science has come a long way, our knowledge about the space outside of our planet is very limited. Scientists have always wanted to study and understand the vastness of the night sky, but the lack of resources has been a serious limiter. Among them is the puzzle of a supernova. A supernova is a massive explosion of a dying star. Astronomers have theorised the functioning of supernova but we don’t really know what causes it and what happens during or right after a supernova explosion. Well, this was true until very recently as a new study might have found the first evidence of a supernova explosion on Earth. Yes, the evidence can be found right on our planet. According to a group of researchers, the truth is hidden behind a stone named Hypatia. Also read: Earth has too much Gold and nobody can understand why – astronomical perplexity
The Hypatia stone, named after the fourth-century female mathematician and philosopher, is a mysterious stone which was discovered in Egypt in 1996. This 1.3-inch wide pebble sized stone had puzzled scientists for decades. Why? Because its geological signature did not match any similar structure found in either our planet or any known meteorite or asteroid. This started a quest for Jan Kramers and Georgy Belyanin, two researchers in the University of Johannesburg to spend a decade studying Hypatia and uncovering its secrets. And finally, they have published a study in the journal Icarus, which has concluded that Hypatia could be a product of a supernova and tangible evidence of the never studied before explosion.
Hypatia had a unique structure that made it unlike any geological formation on the planet or around the solar system. Hypatia had microscopic diamonds in different layers of its
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