A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

The 1181 supernova was no ordinary stellar explosion. Scientists believe the event resulted from a thermonuclear blast that occurred on a white dwarf, or a dense dead star. It’s possible that ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University astronomer Danny Milisavljevic, who led the team behind the JWST images.

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." ...

In space, they’re thought to originate from a star exploding as a supernova or from two dense ... was disturbed for several hours by the blast. Enough energy arrived at Earth to activate lightni ...

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This supernova, detected as part of the JWST Advanced ... In particular, the high-energy blast seems to have been excessively violent. "The first stars were considerably different than the stars ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...

"When a star dies, it can explode in a supernova, causing a strong shock wave and forming an interstellar object called a supernova remnant," wrote an international team of scientists in a paper ...