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Researchers use spectropolarimetry to understand what shape supernovae take when matter explodes from the surface, but it has ...

Since it first appeared in the southern night sky on February 24th 1987, Supernova 1987A has been one of the most studied objects in the history of astronomy. The supernova was the cataclysmic death ...

Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds – and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has caught the action. The nebula, called ...

Astronomers just found a time-lapse view of star exploding 11.5 billion years ago. Using a massive galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens, the Hubble Space Telescope captured the images of the supernova ...

Some of the most dramatic events in the universe are the deaths of massive stars. When stars far larger than our sun run out of fuel and explode in huge supernovas, these events not only let out huge ...

Recently the James Webb Space Telescope captured, in a single image, three separate moments during the death of a star nine billion years ago. Here’s how to view it → ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Kelly ...

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When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long. Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space ...

Thanks to a cosmic magic trick, the Hubble Space Telescope witnesses three different moments in a star's explosive death process. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

Despite the massive number of stars in the sky, spotting one in the throes of a supernova is still an incredibly rare event. Now, astronomers have captured a red supergiant before, during and after a ...