"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the birth of the universe ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

Space scientists have just released spectacular images documenting the death of a star, a process that has been continuously ...

A mysterious supernova just rewrote the rules of star death. Astronomers are still struggling to explain what happened.

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Learn how to determine the observed intensity of a supernova using core physics ideas like luminosity, distance, and the inverse-square law. This video walks through the reasoning and calculations ...