"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

X-ray telescopes such as Chandra are important to the study of supernova remnants and the elements they produce because these events generate extremely high temperatures—millions of degrees ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

The supernova remnant in question is MC SNR J0519–6902, first discovered in 1981. This wreckage has a ring-like structure that is around 26 light-years in diameter — that's wide enough to fit ...