About this episode

Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu discuss the death of stars and supernovas with Dr. Ashley Villar from Harvard.

How do stars die? And what happens when they do? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Ashley Villar, who teaches astronomy at Harvard and whose team studies supernovas as they happen.

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