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An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...
This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, has fascinated observers for centuries. Once believed to be part of the Milky Way, everything changed in 1923 when Edwin Hubble identified ...
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New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...
(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...
An international team of astronomers has made groundbreaking observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR J0450.4−7050 in ...
Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...