I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

One of the biggest questions in the scientific world right now revolves around something we can't see, and can't directly detect in any other way either. Based on the movements of galaxies, ...

A companion star may have stripped silicon layers. This provided a new window into stellar death. Astronomers have observed the inner layers of a dying star through a rare type of stellar explosion ...

The supernova explosion, designated as SN 2018gv, is found in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525. According to NASA, Hubble began observing the supernova after an amateur astronomer named Koichi Itagaki first ...

A groundbreaking astronomical discovery has provided scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into the early universe. Supernova 2023ufx, an extraordinarily rare and metal-poor stellar explosion, has ...

Today, let's talk about a monumental event happening in the universe: the strongest supernova explosion in history. This event is truly shocking and beyond imagination! This supernova shines 57 ...

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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Frye (University of Arizona), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), S. Cohen (Arizona State University), J. D’Silva (University of ...

When the cosmos' first stars exploded in spectacular supernovas, they may have unleashed enormous amounts of water that flooded the early universe — and potentially made life possible just millions of ...

Today, let’s talk about something spectacular in the universe — the breakthrough of supernova shock waves through circumstellar medium, during which the blackbody temperature skyrockets to 12500K!