It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

NASA has captured 25 years of observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory showing the aftermath of Kepler’s Supernova, a ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

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