M83 is located about 15 million light-years away from Earth and is forming stars at a high rate. Using 14 years of Chandra ...
NASA scientists have identified what may be the first known pair of supernova remnants produced by stars that once orbited ...
Learn about a bright blob in the central region of the Milky Way, illuminating what may be a remnant of a massive star that ...
Astronomers have discovered a superluminous supernova drawing energy from a surrounding glowing structure, challenging current understanding of extreme events.
NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected ...
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed ...
Two stars that once lived together in the Jellyfish Nebula may have also died together.
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar ...
A star appears to have exploded near the centre of our galaxy at least 1,700 years ago. The light from that event is long ...
Once charted as a 'guest star' in ancient China, dreaded as a harbinger of ill omens in medieval Europe, and preserved in the ...
Brutal. The post Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence ...
Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...