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A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it (opens in new tab)

iPTF14hls was supposed to dim in 100 days. Instead it exploded five more times over 1,000 days. Archival photos show it also exploded in 1954. No theory fully explains it.

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