"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 ...
For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...
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, ...
A star in the Andromeda Galaxy has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind a puzzling red light source that is baffling astronomers.
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 ...
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 ...