Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada. (This artist’s impression shows a star going ...

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DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory releases its longest-spanning video of X-ray data yet. Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / Pan-STARRS Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...

Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, using a NASA telescope to watch the superheated gas race through space and slam into its surroundings. The new study using ...