The slow decay of the star created much of the solar material visible in the new images. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date.

Jets that failed to punch through the outer shell of a dying star are the sources of mysterious X-ray flashes that have puzzled astronomers for decades. A new study of a star undergoing the throes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured another stunning image of space, this time showing the dramatic scenes around a baby star. Very young stars can throw off powerful jets of hot gas as ...

Dying Stars May 'Dissolve' To Create Heavy Elements Published Apr 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM EDT Updated Apr 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM EDT By Ian Randall ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a ...

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 ...