Hubble Captures a Distant Supernova The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a supernova and its ...

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from ... where the supernova explosion occurred. The spiral galaxy's swirling mass centers around an oval-shaped core region with ...

Astronomers in Chile say they have captured the first close-up image of a star outside ... ejection of material from the dying star before a supernova explosion.” A corresponding study authored ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a faraway galaxy that recently hosted a supernova. This galaxy ...

The red and blue is a result of the gases from the explosion, while the star has turned into a small, bluish body called a white dwarf (represented by the symbol PK205+14.1 in the image below).

By only allowing the light created by ionized atoms of hydrogen and nitrogen, Hubble’s camera was able to produce an extremely detailed and striking image. Like the star that created the ...

The highly energetic explosion was initially attributed to a burst of gamma rays emitted either by the collision of two neutron stars or from the death of a massive star. Soon, however ...

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white dwarf ...

say that a gigantic explosion in space is just a few years away, and that it’s going to be visible to the naked eye. Molnar’s prediction is based on a star called KIC 9832227, which he began ...

A newly released Hubble pic shows the galaxy LEDA 22057, where the supernova explosion occurred ... Supernovas occur when stars grow old, then collapse and explode. SN 2024PI is special because ...

An illustration shows a gamma-ray burst erupting from a dying massive star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva)) First detected in 1967, gamma-ray bursts may be much more familiar to ...