A new sky survey project has released its first round of incredible data, results, and images, including this amazing…
Supernovae are already some of the brightest explosions in the universe—but there’s more mysterious type, called…
Look up and you might see the bright constellation Cassiopeia trace a zig-zag across the sky as it seemingly always…
When it comes to cool space pictures, supernovae get all the credit. After all, who doesn’t love a good star death? But …
Instead of sticking his camera’s lens in the eyepiece of a powerful telescope peering into the heavens, filmmaker Thomas…
Is it possible to find trace evidence of supernovae from millions of years ago in the sediment lining the ocean floor?…
Astronomers have used 15 years of X-ray data to make this video of the remnants of a white dwarf that famously exploded…
Ancient astronomers have long been providing observations of supernovae, such as SN 185 by Chinese astronomers in 185…
When a star dies and erupts as a supernova it can produce a short, sharp shockwave that astronomers call a “shock…
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the brightest supernova yet, briefly blazing fifty times…
The Hubble Space Telescope took a new image of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant from a star that exploded 8,000…
When the supernova burned itself out, all that was left was fragments of dust and light. This fantastic image comes…
An exceptionally bright supernova discovered last month appears to shine brighter than 500 billion Suns. That’s twice…
Stars may be spherical, but that doesn’t mean they explode in a symmetrical and uniform fashion. As a new study shows,…
Exploding stars are always a sight to behold, but not all supernovae are created equal: Some, for instance, may give…
It's not every day we get to see a supernova, and a single exploding star split into four images is an absolute first.…
This is the aftermath of an exploding star (G299, by name) and it's undoubtedly beautiful. But what it also is is very,…
Fruit may be the best thing to blow up because all that pulp, juice, seeds, peel, skin make for great gory guts in…
The supernova is a well-publicized and frightening phenomenon. There's also a phenomenon known as an "unnova." You…
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