Composite image of supernova 1987A. (NASA, ESA et al.)SPACE
PETER DOCKRILL3 APRIL 2021
Life was trying, but it wasn’t working out. As the Late Devonian period dragged on, more and more living things died out, culminating in one of the greatestmass extinction eventsour planet has ever witnessed, approximately 359 million years ago.
The culprit responsible for so much death may not have been local, scientists say. In fact, it might not have even come from our Solar System.
Rather, astudypublished in August last year,led by astrophysicist Brian Fields from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, suggests this great extinguisher of life on Earth could have been a distant and completely foreign phenomenon –a dying star, exploding far across the galaxy, many light-years away from our own remote planet.
Sometimes,mass die-offslike the Late Devonian extinction are thought to be triggered by exclusively terrestrial…
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