The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

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The "Star" of Bethlehem's identity remains a mystery, captivating astronomers and believers alike with theories of rare celestial events and their symbolic power ...

The Galileo spacecraft spotted a shape on Europa originally compared to an asterisk, but now seen more as a spider. Whatever ...

The brightest cosmic object of its kind ever detected may have helped astronomers solve the mystery of powerful, bright blue cosmic explosions. At the heart of the discovery is a signal from a ...

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When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star of Bethlehem, he wrote that it should be “classified with the comets which ...

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A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...