A spectacular view of an exploding star was yesterday released on a new web site launched to mark the Hubble Space Telescope's tenth year in orbit. The multi-coloured fireball, 6500 light years from ...

NASA is celebrating the holiday season with photographs of the remnants of a supernova star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The star, named Cassiopeia A (Cas A), shines brightly from ...

Astronomers have found evidence that a neutron star exists at the centre of the only exploding star – supernova – visible to the naked eye in the last 400 years, solving a 30-year-old mystery.

The supernova is located in the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101, 21million light-years away from Earth (Picture: Steven Bellavia/space.com) Stargazers are in for a treat as astronomers have ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory have unveiled breathtaking new views of the Crab Nebula, revealing previously unseen details in combined images. Nebulae are ...

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Astronomers have captured the moment a far off star exploded - not once but four times. In so doing they confirmed an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity 100 years ago.

Supernova 1987A – located in a neighbouring dwarf galaxy – has been observed for more than three decades. Astronomers have found strong evidence of a neutron star in the remnants of an exploding star ...