A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found that a mass of the exploding stars or the ‘supernovae’ 65 light-years from Earth might have caused the mass extinction event almost 359 million years ago. A new study led by astrophysicist Brian Fields found that the Late Devonian extinction, one of the major five in the history of the Earth’s existence, might have been caused by an explosion from distant stars. The study ruled out that it was the supernova that “coincided with a dramatic drop in stratospheric ozone, possibly due to a global temperature rise” that might have triggered the final extinction catastrophe.
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