When most people hear the word supernova, they envision a massive star reaching the end of its life and exploding outwards to leave a ghostly remnant in its place. This is called a Type II supernova — ...

The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space ...

If I had a nickel for every nickel you could make from the nickel in supernova SN1999em, I’d be very, very, VERY rich. If I were you, dear BABloggee, I’d be thinking, “What the what?” So let me ...

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Optical light curves and spectra of the Type la supernova 1986G in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) are presented. SN 1986G was discovered approximately one week before maximum light. The initial rate of ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status of a supernova, the self-detonation of a star. The supernova, called SN 2018gv, appears in the lower left ...

The eyes of the astronomy community are firmly on one event this week: The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the brand-new space observatory from NASA, the European Space Agency, and the ...

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Virgin). It lies around 80 million light years from Earth. Also visible in this ...

discovered in more than a decade. The star that became SN 2004dj may have been about 15 times as massive as the Sun, and only about 14 million years old. (Massive stars live much shorter lives than ...

16:18, Mon, May 11, 2020 Updated: 16:39, Mon, May 11, 2020 Although the galaxy sits some 98 million miles from Earth, astronomers saw the galaxy flare-up in 1975 and 2015 respectively. Both events ...