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

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

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

For the first time, scientists determined the shape of a supernova's shock front as it burst through the surface of a dying ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists, using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, have witnessed the initial moments of a supernova, SN 2024ggi, located ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

The very moment a star is destroyed has been captured for the first time. Observers witnessed the instant a powerful ...

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