Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but they have all been distant ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

A stronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

On April 10, 2024, astronomers began the fast-paced mission to capture supernova SN 2024ggi. Study coauthor Yi Yang of Tsinghua University in China initially learned about its sighting shortly after ...

Scientists, using the Very Large Telescope, have captured the earliest stages of a supernova explosion, revealing a star 15 times the mass of our sun exploding in an olive-like shape. The study ...

When this shock reaches the surface, it releases an enormous burst of energy. The star brightens dramatically, becoming visible as a supernova. For a short period, astronomers can study the initial ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...