"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...
"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...
An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...
A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...
A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers to rethink how stars die. The event, linked to an extreme gamma-ray outburst ...
The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.
Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...
When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...
A jetliner was nearly knocked out of the sky and sent plummeting to a deadly crash that would have killed all onboard by a ...
Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...