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

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It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a ...

“Supernova explosions and the elements they hurl into space are the lifeblood of new stars and planets,” said Brian Williams ...

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over ...

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

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

The protocol used to find these young supernova explosions could be used on data from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...