The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion. Previous images of the explosion’s remnants had also captured a sphere of long, ...

Astronomers captured the clearest view yet of Pa 30, the likely remains of a stellar explosion witnessed nearly 850 years ago ...

A fleet of telescopes around the world just captured the first shocking moments of a supernova explosion in the most detailed-ever observations of their kind. The explosive event was first spotted by ...

Learn about the remnant of a historic supernova observed around 850 years ago and the zombie star that has survived at its center.

Learn how Johannes Kepler studied it and how astronomers later discovered it was a dying star exploding as a supernova.

Observations from the Dark Energy Camera show the evolution of a supernova, including a bright blue source of light before the explosion (top box), the initial blast ...

This artist’s animation 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 ...

A massive star does not always go out in a brilliant supernova. Some instead collapse into black holes, potentially with little or no visible explosion. What determines which path a dying star takes ...

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they ...

Artist’s impression of a hot core—a warm cocoon of molecular gas surrounding a newborn star—discovered in a supernova remnant. Blue represents high-energy regions produced by the supernova explosion, ...