# Supernovas and Space Gold with Dr. Ashley Villar

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Podcast: [The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-liuniverse-with-dr-charles-liu-6053340)
Published: 2026-03-21T23:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://theliuniverse.podbean.com/e/supernovas-and-space-gold-with-dr-ashley-villar/
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## Resource

How do stars die? And what happens when they do? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Ashley Villar, who teaches astronomy at Harvard and whose team studies supernovas as they happen.

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