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

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

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the ...

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 ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...

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

The explosion, known as SN 2024ggi, was first detected on the night of 10 April 2024 local time. Yi Yang, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the study's lead author, had just ...

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

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 ...

Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...

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

A supernova event recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 is at the heart of a first-of-its-kind 3D animated map, unveiling new secrets of a flowering “zombie star.” Supernova Sn 1181 is ...