A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova ...

An animation shows a core-collapse supernova that creates either a neutron star or a black hole. (Image credit: INAF/Maurice HPM van Putten et al., ApJL, 2024) ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine brighter than anything currently visible in the night sky. But ...

The supernova SN2023ixf was discovered just 21 million light years away—essentially ... The explosion of SN2023ixf is literally shedding light on the process that brought human beings into ...

The stunning Supernova 1987A is roughly 168,000 light-years away from Earth and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers developed an "early-warning system" to alert scientists when a star is on the verge of dying in a supernova explosion. Until now, it's been difficult for scientists to observe the ...

About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova ...

A mismatched pair of stars 3,000 light years away may be gearing up for an explosion in the next few months. T Coronae Borealis (T CrB to its friends) is normally too dim to see with the unaided ...

The last recorded T Coronae Borealis explosion occurred in 1946. Stargazers should have their eyes fixed on the skies, as astronomers say a "once-in-a-lifetime" view of an astronomical explosion ...

The purported "supernova" explosion appears to be superimposed onto the background sky, likely using graphics animation tools such as After Effects or TikTok filters. Read more.