Betelgeuse, 650 light years away, may be nearing the end of its fuel, meaning its supernova could light Earth’s skies as ...

Betelgeuse, one of the largest stars ever discovered, is reaching the end of its life. In the coming centuries or perhaps even right now it could explode into a supernova visible even during the day.

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

When one supernova commenced, it looked like an olive — at least before it got shaken and stirred. This insight, reported in the Nov. 12 Science Advances, comes from new observations taken in the wake ...

Humanity can survive a supernova explosion due to the fact that the closest potential candidate is at a safe distance. Astronomer Vladimir Surdin told about this on November 16 in an interview with ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious.

Thanks to observations using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers have managed to capture one of the shortest phases of a supernova's life — the ...

An international team of astronomers has performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a distant Type Ibn supernova known as SN 2024acyl. Results of the observational campaign, published ...