When the two stars eventually smash into each other, the supernova explosion would be visible from Earth, even during daytime ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted detailed multicolor photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of ...

Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species ...

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 ...

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A massive star exploded as a supernova around 11,300 years ago. Its remnants are one of the most studied supernova remnants ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to ...

New X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Cassiopeia A’s chaotic final hours, showing how dying stars collapse and ...

Researchers observed a supernova in progress that showed the onion-like structure of elements in stars, and the explosion may belong to a class of its own ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...