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An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the "Diamond Ring" in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ...

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When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...