Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent ...
SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC 2146. This rare find is shedding new light on how stars ...
On Oct. 9, 2022, the orbiting Swift and Fermi gamma-ray detectors observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever seen: GRB 221009A. Astronomers around the world quickly responded by turning as many ...
In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...
Astronomers developed the world's first AI system that can automatically detect, identify, and classify supernovae. It could save scientists precious time. Reading time 2 minutes You can add supernova ...
An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...
The spiraling arms of the Pinwheel galaxy. Image: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y ...
Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. This discovery ...
A "guest star," briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars, according to new simulations that may finally solve an 800-year-old cosmic mystery. When you purchase through links on our ...