Astronomers have identified what appears to be a cosmic smoking gun for a historic supernova explosion, a find that may also help with the search for elusive dark energy in the universe. The new ...
"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...
The explosion likely occurred within a dense shell of matter shed by a companion star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the ...
The strikingly bright shock waves from a massive star explosion first observed in 1987 can still be seen today, three decades later. This brilliant star explosion, called Supernova 1987A, occurred ...
The exploded star Tycho, called the Tycho Supernova. (It's not the star recently observed exploding, but a past supernova event.) Credit: NASA / CXC / RIKEN and GSFC / T. Sato et al. / Optical: DSS ...
Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe), a theoretically predicted stellar explosion type for stars in the 8-10 solar mass range, are now empirically confirmed by the analysis of SN 2018zd. The ...