"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...
Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given ...
An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...
What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...
A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...
On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...
What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, mysterious, and eerily quiet, despite their mass and influence. Stellar-mass ...
For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...
When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...
Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...