NASA's Webb Space Telescope has captured the rare and brief phase of a star in the constellation Sagittarius right before dying and going supernova. The image, released Tuesday at the South by ...

Ya burnt! For the first time — and in our own Milky Way galaxy — scientists were able to watch in real time as a dying star sucked a “Jupiter-sized world” into its blazing core. The ...

WOH G64 lies within the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. The post First close-up image of distant star reveals dying cosmic collosus appeared first on ...

WOH G64 is a dying star that researchers have known about since 2005, and have been monitoring since. Until this new development, scientists had not been able to take an actual photo of the star.

The detection of an event on 8 January 2025 was fortuitous for our understanding of the way these energetic explosions can go wrong. An X-ray telescope on the Einstein Probe caught an FXT from 2.8 ...