It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole —that was so powerful astronomers quickly dubbed it BOAT, for “Brightest of all Time.” That ...
A team of astronomers recently had to act fast to obtain a never-before-seen image of a dying star. The supernova explosion SN 2024ggi was first detected on April 10, 2024. The scientist leading the ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.
Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...
This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in ...
The light from the explosion did not reach Earth till June 29, 2025, when the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae detected it.
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combined image shows Pa 30, a unique stellar remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA/CXC) It's never too late ...
It's never too late to solve a cold case. A new paper from Syracuse University researchers proposes an explanation for both a mysterious stellar object discovered in the year 2013 and an astronomical ...