A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...
An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...
Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...
A giant star in the Andromeda Galaxy has vanished without a trace, leaving scientists puzzled and intrigued. First observed ...
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"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...
When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...
It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...
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 ...