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JULY-AUGUST 2022 i ng a micronova,” explains Simone Scaringi, an astronomer at Durham University in the UK who led the study on these explosions published in Nature . “The phenomenon challenges our understanding of how thermonu- clear explosions in stars occur. We thought we knew this, but this dis- covery proposes a totally new way to achieve them,” he adds. Micronovae are extremely powerful events, but are small on astronomi-