Jan 10, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered what may be the most distant Type Ia supernova ever found. Supernova...

Nov 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new composite image combining far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA’s Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories reveals the details of the supernova...

Nov 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the giant Keck telescope in Hawaii have detected two superluminous supernovae – stellar explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than...

Oct 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...

Sep 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested that a stellar explosion known as the Kepler’s...

Sep 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study by a team of European and Japanese scientists has revealed that stellar processes producing silver differ from those producing gold. This image...

Sep 3, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806...

Aug 31, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered an ultra-luminous supernova in a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years away and used it as a...

Aug 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays from the remains of a supernova...

Aug 3, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Stella Kafka of the Carnegie Institution for Science have reported the discovery of a star system, prior to explosion, which will...

May 16, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon...

Apr 4, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists using long observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested a massive star that became the Cassiopeia A supernova...