PS1-10afx, an unusually bright supernova that was discovered in 2010 using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, is so luminous because...
A new image of a huge supernova discovered six weeks ago in the nearby galaxy Messier 82 has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
This Hubble...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has revealed how stars blow up in supernova explosions.
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Astronomers led by Dr Stefan Keller of the Australian National University say they have discovered the oldest star ever seen in the Universe.
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have directly imaged the huge amounts of freshly formed dust in the remnant of...
According to an international group of astronomers, two unusual stellar explosions detected in 2006 and 2007 are a new subclass of superluminous supernova...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have reported the discovery of the youngest X-ray binary ever found in our Milky Way Galaxy.
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New observations of the famous Tycho’s supernova remnant by the Suzaku X-ray astronomy satellite have revealed that a reverse shock wave racing inward...
Astronomers used a new astronomical software system called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory to discover a new Type Ib supernova and link it to...
According to a team of astronomers reporting in the journal Nature, super-luminous supernovae are powered by small and incredibly dense neutron stars,...
Using optical data of a recently detected gamma ray burst afterglow, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State...
An international team of researchers has discovered tiny grains of sand from ancient supernova in two primitive meteorites.
Primitive carbonaceous chondrite...
An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has found the most distant Type Ia supernova ever detected.
This is a Hubble view...
An international team of astronomers from Australia and Hong Kong using the Australia Telescope Compact Array has observed the supernova remnant 1987A...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Alicia Margarita Soderberg from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced the discovery of a new type...
New data obtained with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory point to the origin of the supernova SN 1604, the famous explosion that was discovered by the...
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very rare Type Ibn supernova on the outskirts of a bright elliptical galaxy located...
A team of students from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, using the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment’s telescope ROTSE3b at the McDonald...
