"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Prague, October 1604. The then 34-year-old astronomer Johannes Kepler was looking at the constellation of Ophiuchus, and he ...

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that ...

When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. When you purchase ...

White dwarves are the compact, shriveled cores of once-mighty stars that have expelled their outer gas layers into space. In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy, ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

BOTHELL, Wash. — Bothell-area resident Jeff Thornburg saw an opportunity to develop a new type of spacecraft. One, he says is more maneuverable, more capable, and more rapid. "Our Supernova Spacecraft ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

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