An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they knew. In 2021, a star about 2.2 billion light-years away ended its life in ...

An artist’s interpretation of light from a supernova passing through a gravitational lens, reaching Earth at different times. (CREDIT: Oskar Klein Center, University of Stockholm / Samuel Avraham & ...

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have observed a new type of supernova that seems to defy the very principles of stellar evolution that have been held for decades. The supernova, named ...

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A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — For ...