Astronomers have captured the moment a star, 500 million light years from Earth, exploded in a dramatic supernova, marking the end of its life. A type II supernova explosion happens when a very large ...

Supernovas occur when a giant star runs out of energy. As it runs out of fuel to keep burning, the star expands massively before collapsing under its own gravitational pull. When it does, it releases ...

Australian astronomers have captured never-before-seen photos of an exploding giant star, 100 times bigger than the sun. The imagery of the supernova shows a powerful burst of light as a shock wave ...

Through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, STScI, ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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.

Betelgeuse has piqued interest in the astronomy community as experts noticed that it was dimming relatively quickly over the past few months. The distant star is 640 lightyears from Earth, yet remains ...

LIFE on Earth was almost wiped out when a distant star exploded nearly 360millions years ago, according to a new study. The supernova 65 light years away is thought to have caused a mass extinction ...

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A new understanding of the last days of supergiant stars may have given scientists the clues they need to predict when those stars will go supernova, collapsing in some of the largest explosions known ...

A strange yellow star which exploded into a supernova in a never-before-seen situation “stretches what’s physically possible”, scientists have said. A team at Nasa was monitoring the enigmatic ball of ...