A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...
With the aid of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered an erupting cataclysmic variable star in a rarely seen ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...