The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

When this shock reaches the surface, it releases an enormous burst of energy. The star brightens dramatically, becoming visible as a supernova. For a short period, astronomers can study the initial ...

Van Zuilen captured the ancient nebula light using an Askar 103APO refractor telescope in conjunction with a ZWO manufactured ...

Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by ...

Astronomers developed the world's first AI system that can automatically detect, identify, and classify supernovae. It could save scientists precious time. reading time 2 minutes You can add supernova ...

Two major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries of our Milky Way: where are all the supernova remnants? A supernova remnant is an ...

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Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. This discovery ...

Science popularizer Angel Molina, an expert in astronomy and astrophotography, explained on his TikTok channel what a ...