An article published in the journal “Nature Astronomy” describes a research that offers an explanation to a type of extremely bright event called Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient (FELT), that lasts just a few days. A team of researchers took advantage of the ability of NASA’s Kepler space telescope to accurately detect rapid changes in starlight to build a model in which a FELT event is caused by a large shell of gas and dust around a supernova, which makes it shine.