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 have uncovered an unexpectedly ordered structure inside Pa 30, the only known supernova remnant of its kind in ...

Pa 30’s apparent streaks are chains of enormous gas knots, while its surviving star shows little sideways recoil from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four stars with unusual chemical ingredients may not need exceptionally powerful explosions to explain their origins. New ...

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, ...

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star's detonation sent its ...