A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it exploded. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the international team ...

A star that was stripped of its outer layers shortly before it exploded as a supernova offers astronomers an unprecedented glimpse of a stellar interior. Read the paper: Extremely stripped supernova ...

Images taken by JWST reveal the star that became SN2025pht before it exploded, providing our best view of a red supergiant proto-supernova. The cloud of dust hiding the star from our eyes may answer ...

The most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star hidden in dust before it exploded has been captured by astronomers. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team identified a ...

"It's the reddest, dustiest red supergiant that we've seen explode as a supernova." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For decades, ...

Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study detailing the ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can ...

A New Jersey-bound airplane that suddenly plunged thousands of feet in the air — sending 15 people to the hospital in October — was likely struck by cosmic rays from a star that exploded in another ...