Raised in the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant, Kenobi was assigned to Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. He was Force-sensitive, and therefore taken from his family and inducted into the Jedi Order as a child. Kenobi was born on the planet Stewjon in 1927. As a mentor, Kenobi was responsible for training two members of the Skywalker family, Anakin and Luke Skywalker, both of whom served in turn as his Padawan in the ways of the Force.
Kenobi, however, was forced into exile as a result of the Great Jedi Purge. As a Jedi General, Kenobi served in the Grand Army of the Republic that fought against the Separatist Droid Army during the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan Kenobi was a legendary Force-sensitive human male Jedi Master who served on the Jedi High Council during the final years of the Republic Era. " And those who oppose it are more powerful than you'll ever be." ―Obi-Wan Kenobi and Maul It takes strength to resist the dark side. Following the initial explosion, some of this material may have fallen back onto the partially-exploded star, creating a zombie object called a bound remnant."You can kill me, but you will never destroy me. It's possible that, when the explosion ignited, it was too weak to fully blow away all the gas that comprised the white dwarf. The best clue to solving this puzzle is the weakened nature of the type 1ax supernova, the researchers wrote. "Nobody was expecting to see a surviving star that was brighter," study lead author Curtis McCully, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB, said in the statement. This was the first time that scientists had ever identified the progenitor star of a white dwarf supernova, the team wrote - and the first time a white dwarf star had apparently survived its own thermonuclear explosion. But more baffling still, the researchers identified a white dwarf star at the exact epicenter of the explosion, shining even brighter than the progenitor star that had been there before. The explosion was much dimmer and weaker than a typical type 1a supernova - putting it in a rare category called a type 1ax supernova, or a "failed" type 1a supernova. Subsequent observations in 2014 revealed that the supernova was stranger than astronomers had initially guessed. Scientists aren't sure exactly how these explosions occur, but a popular theory suggests that the white dwarf gradually draws in gas from its companion star, until the white dwarf reaches a critical mass that triggers a runaway thermonuclear reaction in its core - resulting in a massive supernova explosion. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers saw the bright flare of light on the edge of a spiral galaxy some 120 million light-years from Earth, amidst a river of stars called the Eridanus constellation.īased on its brightness and the type of light emitted, the blast appeared to be a type 1a supernova - a thermonuclear explosion that is thought to occur in star systems where the shriveled husk of a burnt-out star, known as a white dwarf, shares a close orbit with another, larger star. It transcended death." The force awakens.Īstronomers first detected the supernova - named SN 2012Z - while its progenitor star was in mid-explosion. It is still the same star, but back in a different form. "Nature tried to strike this star down, but it came back more powerful than we could have imagined. "This star surviving is a little like Obi-Wan Kenobi coming back as a force ghost in Star Wars," study co-author Andy Howell, adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), said in a statement.
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