A new video provides a front-row seat to a cosmic drama that has been playing out for centuries. Since 1604, when astronomers ...
Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.
NASA has captured 25 years of observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory showing the aftermath of Kepler’s Supernova, a ...
The stunning time-lapse was created using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.
"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.
Situated around 17,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy, the supernova remnant is close enough for NASA’s ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1987, light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached Earth. Named Supernova 1987A, it was the closest supernova explosion witnessed in ...