Luminous red nova

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So another example, um, is recently I've been involved in a project, um, dealing with luminous red novae.

Have you talked about these before on the podcast?

I don't think I have.

Like, for example, st- stuff where the shock's moving close to the speed of light, you need to learn a whole bunch of new physics for that.

Yeah.

You have a shock that's, like, in a, what-- I'm as- I assume with luminous red novae there's other physics that I didn't think of that you [laughs] also need to learn.

A lot, yeah.