Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing more light than the entire galaxy for an instant.

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the ...

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies on nuclear ...

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 ...

Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree on May 18 this year, he wowed his hosts with images of star clusters and colorful galaxies — including ...

The protocol used to find these young supernova explosions could be used on data from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The early stages of a supernova explosion are revelatory in what they can ...

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that ...

Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced radioactive elements on the seafloor back to the cosmic explosions they might ...

A first-of-its-kind, animated map has revealed fresh secrets about a mysterious, flowering "zombie star" lurking in the remnant of a supernova that lit up Earth's skies more than 800 years ago. The ...

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