The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the speed ...

There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this explosive diversity when they assessed ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...

Astronomers are used to dramatic endings. When a massive star dies, it usually explodes ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

A star exploding at the end of its life has rocked the cosmos like no other that humanity has ever seen. In 2021, astronomers watched in astonishment as a supernova 2.2 billion light-years away named ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...

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