The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...
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 ...
What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...
A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...
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NASA has unveiled 25 never-before-seen space images to celebrate the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s 25th anniversary. Together they showcase the incredible variety of objects Chandra has studied over a ...
The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...