An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal” reports a study of the consequences of the supernova cataloged as SN 2012Z, considered to be of the type Iax, which means that it’s the explosion of a white dwarf. A team of researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope to study its remnants and found that the star survived the supernova and is even brighter than before. One possibility is that the explosion was too weak to scatter the remnants of the white dwarf into interstellar space with the result that they started re-aggregating.